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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

Who reads The Book of Animal Ignorance : Everything You Think You Know Is Wrong?

Author

John Lloyd; John Mitchinson

Publisher

Random House, Incorporated

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781299002272

Category

science

Subjects

Science, Humor, Nature

Rating

3.84 / 5 (777 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13