Poison
Subtitle: sinister species with deadly consequences
By: Mark Siddall ; illustrations by Megan Gavin
Contributors: American Museum of Natural History
Publisher: Sterling Signature
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9781454907640
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Poisonous animals; Anecdotes
Other titles: Sinister species with deadly consequences
Description: The curator of invetertebrate zoology at the American Museum of Natural History provides a look at some of the world's most dangerous creatures, discussing their dangerous, sometimes lethal, and occasionally beneficial poisons. --
Notes: "American Museum of Natural History"--Title page.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Things one shouldn't touch. Joustiong knights ; Blue persuasion ; Father of the year ; Beetlemania ; Evolution is for the birds ; Babar's bar ; All that glisters ; Advice from a caterpillar ; Asymmentrical warfare ; Pincushions; title: Things one shouldn't eat. Fowl passages ; One fish, toothish ; In a pickle briny ; Blistering bell-bottomed balderdash ; Hold my beer and watch this!; title: Things that sting. Stinging criticism ; Taken to heart ; The glory of the sea ; Jelly belly ; First encounters ; Unlucky thirteen ; Stinging bullets; title: Things that bite. Bad Bill ; Measure for mammal ; Red-green show ; Ticked off ; Patience ; Don't tread on me.