Moths that drink elephants' tears
Subtitle: and other zoological curiosities
By: Matt Walker
Publisher: Portrait
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780749951283
Subjects: Animal behavior; Miscellanea
Description: The mating game -- Unhealthy living -- Drink and drugs -- Talented creatures -- Talking ... -- and listening -- Eating ... -- and excreting -- Species that regularly eat their own faeces -- Breathe easy -- Under pressure -- Good vibrations -- Questions, questions, questions ... -- Enduring enigmas -- Mysterious giants -- Man and beast don't get along -- Differences -- When animals attack -- Nature red in tooth and claw -- Biomechanical wonders -- Super organs -- Energy efficient -- Do the locomotion -- Left or right -- In the blood -- Smelly world -- Zoological definitions -- The power of the goat -- Ripe for mummification -- Laugh and play -- Amazing fakes -- Mistaken identity -- Telling look-alikes apart -- Alliterative collective nouns -- What's in a name? -- More than one name to call a cat -- That time of life -- Origin of the species -- Colours of the rainbow -- Home is where the heart is -- Weird identity -- The rarest of the rare -- Death becomes them ... -- or not -- Resurrection -- References.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.