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Title: |
Weird Canadian Animals |
| Sub-title: |
Fascinating, Bizarre and Astonishing Facts from Canada's Animal Kingdom |
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| By (author): |
Wendy Pirk |
| ISBN10-13: |
1897278527 : 9781897278529 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
209.55x133.35x15.24mm |
| Pages: |
216 |
| Weight: |
.240 Kg. |
| Published: |
Blue Bike Books (CA) - May 2009 |
| List Price: |
11.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
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| Subjects: |
Trivia & quiz question books |
| 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... |
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