The screaming hairy armadillo : and 76 other animals with weird, wild names / Matthew Murrie, Steve Murrie ; illustrated by Julie Benbassat.
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TextPublisher: New York : Workman Publishing, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Description: xviii, 154 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781523508112
- 1523508116
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A fascinating compendium featuring over 70 unusual animal species.
What's in a name? This lively, illustrated celebration is jam-packed with creatures notable for their bizarre, baffling, and just-plain-funny names.
Meet the White-Bellied Go-Away Bird , whose cry sounds like someone screaming, "Go away!" Or the Aye-Aye , whose name means "I don't know" in Malagasy because no one wants anything to do with this bad-luck creature.
Some are obvious, if still weird--guess what the Fried Egg Jellyfish looks like. Others sound like an inside joke: It's easy to figure out what was on the taxonomist's mind when he christened a fly he discovered Pieza Pie .
Along the way you'll learn all about these curiously named animals' just-as-curious habits, appearances, and abilities.
An illustrated compendium of animals with funny, fascinating, or just-plain-weird names (like the sparklemuffin peacock spider or the fried egg jellyfish) teaches kids about unusual animals as well as scientific taxonomy. Genuinely fun reference!
Funny names -- Magical names -- Fierce names -- Delicious names -- Just plain weird names.