When lunch fights back
Subtitle: wickedly clever animal defenses
By: Rebecca L. Johnson
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9781467721097
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Animal defenses; Juvenile literature; Animals
Description: Presents the various types of defenses mechanisms used by animals, including the bone spikes of the African hairy frog, the deadly poison of the blue-spotted N. taracua termite, and the hammer-like punch of the peacock mantis shrimp.

Good defenses can make the difference between surviving a predator's attack and becoming its lunch. This book profiles nine animals and one plant with particularly noxious defense mechanisms.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 45-47) and index.

Ages 9-14.

Accelerated Reader MG 5.9 1 1 167386
Table of contents: title: Slip-sliming away; title: Concealed weapons; title: Suicide bombers; title: Master blasters; title: Knock-out punch; title: Here¿s blood in your eye; title: Of bullies and bait; title: Meet my bodyguards.