The Book of Animal Ignorance: Everything You Think You Know Is Wrong
by: John Mitchinson, John Lloyd
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Fast on the heels of the New York Times bestseller The Book of General Ignorance comes The Book of Animal Ignorance, a fun, fact-filled bestiary that is sure to delight animal lovers everywhere. Arranged alphabetically from aardvark to worm, here are one hundred of the most interesting members of the animal kingdom explained, dissected, and illustrated, with the trademark wit and wisdom of John Lloyd and John Mitchinson.
Did you know, for instance, that
• when a young albatross takes wing, it may stay aloft for ten years
• vampire bat saliva—unsurprisingly, when you think about it—is the source of the world’s most powerful blood thinning drug, appropriately called draculin
• bombardier beetles fire a boiling chemical spray out of their rears at 300 pulses per second
• a bald eagle’s feathers weigh twice as much as its bones
• a giant tortoise recently died at the documented age of 255
• octopuses are dexterous enough to unscrew tops from jars
• spider silk is so light that a strand long enough to circle the world would weigh as much as a bar of soap?
So meet the water bears that can live in suspension for hundreds of years, the parasite carried by your cat that makes men grumpy and women promiscuous, and the woodlouse that drinks through its bottom. Marvel at elephants that walk on tiptoe, pigs that shine in the dark, and woodpeckers that have ears on the ends of their tongues.
If you still think a pangolin is a musical instrument, that hyenas are dogs, or that sheep are pointless and stupid, The Book of Animal Ignorance has arrived just in time.
Fast on the heels of the New York Times bestseller The Book of General Ignorance comes The Book of Animal Ignorance, a fun, fact-filled bestiary that is sure to delight animal lovers everywhere. Arranged alphabetically from aardvark to worm, here are one hundred of the most interesting members of the animal kingdom explained, dissected, and illustrated, with the trademark wit and wisdom of John Lloyd and John Mitchinson.
Did you know, for instance, that
• when a young albatross takes wing, it may stay aloft for ten years
• vampire bat saliva—unsurprisingly, when you think about it—is the source of the world’s most powerful blood thinning drug, appropriately called draculin
• bombardier beetles fire a boiling chemical spray out of their rears at 300 pulses per second
• a bald eagle’s feathers weigh twice as much as its bones
• a giant tortoise recently died at the documented age of 255
• octopuses are dexterous enough to unscrew tops from jars
• spider silk is so light that a strand long enough to circle the world would weigh as much as a bar of soap?
So meet the water bears that can live in suspension for hundreds of years, the parasite carried by your cat that makes men grumpy and women promiscuous, and the woodlouse that drinks through its bottom. Marvel at elephants that walk on tiptoe, pigs that shine in the dark, and woodpeckers that have ears on the ends of their tongues.
If you still think a pangolin is a musical instrument, that hyenas are dogs, or that sheep are pointless and stupid, The Book of Animal Ignorance has arrived just in time.
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Customer Reviews
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- Interesting and funny/wierd
If you have read "Everything you think you know is wrong" and liked it, you will def like this one as well. Most of the topics are intriguing and funny. There are a ton of interesting facts and things that i never knew about animals. A must read for people who like useless knowledge.
Rating: - Funny
My 14 year old daughter just loves to share information from this book.There are a lot of very funny & interesting facts about animals.She's truly enjoying the book!
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- Very interesting
Do you need to know about all the animals in this book?Probably not.Will you remember even half of the information provided to you?No.Are some of the "nicknames" given to the animals a bit unsettling?Yes.However, it is a fun quick read, and even if you only remember one or two of the hundreds of facts in this book, you will at some time be able to impress your friends or family.Isn't that enough? Yes!
Rating: - Animal Ignorance
Well written and very concise.This is a really good consensus of information
that I have never seen or even heard of in the past.
It is very informative and very entertaining.
Rating: - Very Enjoyable!
I learned a lot that I never knew about the animal world in a fun and easy to read format. Very enjoyable and informative, I highly recommend it.
- Interesting and funny/wierdIf you have read "Everything you think you know is wrong" and liked it, you will def like this one as well. Most of the topics are intriguing and funny. There are a ton of interesting facts and things that i never knew about animals. A must read for people who like useless knowledge.
- FunnyMy 14 year old daughter just loves to share information from this book.There are a lot of very funny & interesting facts about animals.She's truly enjoying the book!
- Very interestingDo you need to know about all the animals in this book?Probably not.Will you remember even half of the information provided to you?No.Are some of the "nicknames" given to the animals a bit unsettling?Yes.However, it is a fun quick read, and even if you only remember one or two of the hundreds of facts in this book, you will at some time be able to impress your friends or family.Isn't that enough? Yes!
- Animal IgnoranceWell written and very concise.This is a really good consensus of information
that I have never seen or even heard of in the past.
It is very informative and very entertaining.
- Very Enjoyable!I learned a lot that I never knew about the animal world in a fun and easy to read format. Very enjoyable and informative, I highly recommend it.
