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

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Authors: John Mitchinson, John Lloyd
Publisher: Harmony
Category: Book

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

5 reviews
Sales Rank: 2367

Media: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 6.1 x 1

ISBN: 030739493X
Dewey Decimal Number: 590
EAN: 9780307394934
ASIN: 030739493X

Publication Date: September 2, 2008
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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
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 women promiscuous, and the woodlouse that drinks through its bottom. Marvel at elephants that walk on tiptoe, pigs that shine in the dark, and woodpeckers that have ears on the ends of their tongues.

If you still think a pangolin is a musical instrument, that hyenas are dogs, or that sheep are pointless and stupid, The Book of Animal Ignorance has arrived just in time.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars

Addictive animal trivia September 4, 2008
Julie Neal (Sanibel Island, Fla.)
21 out of 22 found this review helpful

I defy you to read even a few pages of this little book and not be tempted to yell out to whoever else is in the house: "Did you know that ...?" The other person will laugh and say "You made that up!"

This is a perfect book for people who love animals and/or arcane bits of trivia. It is a bestiary of 100 animals -- some common, some you've probably never heard of -- all with secrets you would never guess. You'll never look at your dog the same way; did you know that Labrador retrievers can correctly identify lung cancer in humans 99 percent of the time... just by smelling their breath?

Each animal gets two or three pages, with a couple of black and white illustrations. Organized in alphabetical order, you won't want to stop until you get to the lowly, fascinating worm. Did you know that ribbon worms will eat their own bodies if their food supply runs out? They can eat up to 95 percent of themselves and still survive.

No, I didn't make that up.

John Lloyd and John Mitchinson also wrote The Book of General Ignorance.

5 out of 5 stars

absorbing! September 18, 2008
Mockingbird (Illinois)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful

a book from which i can truly say i gained a wealth of information...whimsically written while maintaining an informational voice...only caveat i can complain of is the authors' consistent failure to provide a simple description of each animal's size...given that some of the animals were previously unknown to me, i would have appreciated the information..

5 out of 5 stars

Very Enjoyable! October 6, 2008
Jay B. Siegel (Round Rock, TX)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful

I learned a lot that I never knew about the animal world in a fun and easy to read format. Very enjoyable and informative, I highly recommend it.

5 out of 5 stars

Great read! October 4, 2008
Katherine Vanpelt (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Fantastic buy! I've passed the book on to so many friends and family members already. Everybody's talking about it. I find myself quoting animal facts to strangers. I'm definately a smarter person for having read it.

3 out of 5 stars

Animal Ignorance November 2, 2008
John H. Frazier (Santa Fe, NM USA)
Well written and very concise. This is a really good consensus of information
that I have never seen or even heard of in the past.
It is very informative and very entertaining.

animal behavior curiosities education facts trivia

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