Animals
By: by Leon Gray
Series: Super natural
Publisher: Wayland (Publishers) Ltd
Published: 2013
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780750279345; 9780750283861
Subjects: Animals; Juvenile literature; Adaptation
Description: Explores the amazing superpowers of bugs and animals such as internal GPS, body liquification, limb regeneration and coming back from the dead! Discover the incredible superpowers displayed by creatures in the natural world. Find out how scientists have harnessed or mimicked these superpowers to create amazing developments in technology and medicine. Explore how the creations of animators and filmmakers have been influenced by these superpowers.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The super natural world of animals; title: The invisible adder; title: The Cassowary: armed and dangerous; title: The crazy colour, changing chameleon; title: The extrasensory duck-billed platypus; title: The electric zapping eel; title: The x-ray ears of the Fennec Fox; title: The anti-gravity gecko; title: The super sensory giant anteater; title: The super shield of the Hermit crab; title: The super-speedy hummingbird; title: The bionic newt; title: The shape-shifting octopus; title: The supersonic pink river dolphin; title: The heat-seeking pit viper; title: The poisonous shape-shifting pufferfish; title: The touchy-feely raccoon; title: The spitting cobra's toxic spray; title: The Tarsier's bionic vision; title: The heat-seeking supersonic vampire bat; title: The wood frog: a cryogenic Mr. Freeze.