When lunch fights back : wickedly clever animal defenses / Rebecca L. Johnson.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Minneapolis : Millbrook Press, [2015]Description: 48 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1467721093 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)
- 9781467721097 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's NonFiction | 591.47 J68 | Available | 33111007608306 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The octopus spies a nice, tasty mantis shrimp. It swims over for a closer look at the small creature. Then--WHAM!--the mantis shrimp strikes a nasty blow with its hammer-like forelimb. The octopus shrinks back, defeated. That wasn't such an easy meal after all . . .
In nature, good defenses can mean the difference between surviving a predator's attack and becoming its lunch. Some animals rely on sharp teeth and claws or camouflage. But that's only the beginning. Meet creatures with some of the strangest defenses known to science. How strange? Hagfish that can instantaneously produce oodles of gooey, slippery slime; frogs that poke their own toe bones through their skin to create claws; young birds that shoot streams of stinking poop; and more.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 45-47) and index.
Slip-sliming away -- Concealed weapons -- Suicide bombers -- Master blasters -- Knock-out punch -- Here¿s blood in your eye -- Of bullies and bait -- Meet my bodyguards.
Presents the various types of defenses mechanisms used by animals, including the bone spikes of the African hairy frog, the deadly poison of the blue-spotted N. taracua termite, and the hammer-like punch of the peacock mantis shrimp.
Ages 9-14.