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Australian Weevils - Adelognatha by Elwood C. Zimmerman
Category: Reference | Series: Animal and Veterinary Science Ser.
Australian Weevils: Volume IV covers the 11 smaller tribes of the weevil subfamily Entiminae (broad-nosed weevils), which comprises more than 100 genera and 700 described species in Australia. Around half of this fauna is covered in Volume IV, featuring keys to all the tribes, genera and described speci ...Show more
Deadly !: The Truth About the Most Dangerous Creatures on Earth by Nicola Davies
Category: Education | Series: Animal Science Ser.
Meet the animal kingdom's most competent killers in this fascinating natural history book. Stabbing and strangling, poisoning and drowning, electrocuting, exploding, dive-bombing and even death by glueing! Throughout the animal kingdom, creatures great and small have evolved to become masters of murder: ...Show more
Just the Right Size - Why Big Animals Are Big and Little Animals Are Little by Nicola Davies; Neal Layton (Illustrator)
Category: Education | Series: Animal Science Ser.
From a celebrated team comes a fascinating look at why we don't have super powers (alas) -- and why size matters, for creatures big and small. Did you ever wonder why there are no high-flying, wall-climbing, tall-building-leaping superheroes in real life? Find out what keeps big animals (like us) from e ...Show more
Talk, Talk, Squawk!: How and Why Animals Communicate by Nicola Davies; Neal Layton (Illustrator)
Category: Education | Series: Animal Science Ser.
From the team behind Poo, Extreme Animals, What's Eating You? and Just the Right Size comes another funny and informative book on animal biology, this time looking at how and why animals communicate - for the purposes of mating, gathering food, warning of danger, and many many more. Biologist and childr ...Show more
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