Unusual creatures : a mostly accurate account of some of the Earth's strangest animals
Publication Information
San Francisco : Chronicle Books, 2012.
Physical Description
109 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Summary
This book introduces the reader to a wealth of extraordinary life forms. From the top of Mt. Everest to 10,000 feet under the sea, fascinating animals are everywhere. A basilisk that can run on water, an octopus that can mimic other animals, a fish that defends itself with slime and ties itself in a knot to wipe the slime away ... plus dozens more!
Contents
- Axolotl
- Aye-Aye
- Bar-headed goose
- Barking spider
- Bee hummingbird
- Bilby
- Blobfish
- Blue-footed booby
- Cantor's giant soft-shelled turtle
- Chinese giant salamander
- Dugong
- Echidna
- Elephant shrew
- Flying snake
- Giant anteater
- Giant gippsland earthworm
- Giraffe-necked weevil
- Glass frog
- Great hornbill
- Guineafowl pufferfish
- Hagfish
- Hammer-headed bat
- Honey badger
- Horned puffin
- Humpback anglerfish
- Jesus Christ lizard
- Komodo dragon
- Leafy sea dragon
- Long-eared jerboa
- Magnapinna squid
- Mimic octopus
- Narwhal
- Olm
- Pea frog
- Pink fairy armadillo
- Platypus
- Pygmy marmoset
- Saddleback caterpillar
- Sea pig
- Slow loris
- Solenodon
- Star-nosed mole
- Tapir
- Tardigrade
- Texas horned lizard
- Three-toed sloth
- Tiburonia granrojo
- Weddell seal
- Wombat
- Yeti crab.