WEIRD CANADIAN ANIMALS: Fascinating, Bizarre and Astonishing Facts from Canada's Animal Kingdom - Softcover

PIRK W

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1897278527 ISBN 13: 9781897278529

Publisher: Blue Bike Books, 2012

Synopsis

From strange behaviour to interesting prey-vs.-predator relationships to fantastical creatures, the animal world is full of fascinating facts about our furry, feathered and scaly friends: * The wood frog burrows into the leaf litter in winter; its heart, brain and eyeballs freeze, and they defrost again in the spring * In 2006, a hunter shot and killed a hybrid of a grizzly and a polar bear, dubbed a grolar or pizzly bear, the first to be found in the wild *The bombardier beetle protects itself by expelling a boiling hot chemical spray from its rear end * A woodpecker''s tongue is so long that it rolls up in the bird''s skull like a tape measure in its case * Rabbits produce two kinds of stool: one that the animal eats, which is rich in vitamins and nutrients, and another that is waste matter * Some clever crows drop nuts onto roadways so that passing vehicles drive over them and break the shells open * The horned lizard defends itself by squirting blood from its eyes * Canada was home to 2.5-metre-long giant sea scorpions 400 million years ago. * And so much more...

About this title

About the Author

Wendy Pirk is an animal lover who dreamed of being a veterinarian but decided instead to pursuea degree in Ecological Anthropology. She is a serious environmentalist and is a freelance writer with a focus on nature and the environment.

Edition details

• Publisher: Blue Bike Books
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1897278527
• ISBN 13: 9781897278529
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1