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Minibeasts with Jess French: Masses of mindblowing minibeast facts!

Autor Jess French
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 mar 2018
Fancy meeting a foot-long centipede or a spider the size of your dinner plate? Willing to let the world's weirdest and most fascinating minibeasts join you on your sofa?Then allow Jess French to lead you head first through the unbelievable world of invertebrates and explore their incredible adaptations, from dancing scorpions and blood-sucking moths to zombie spiders and slime-shooting worms.Marvel at how minibeasts have evolved to survive in almost every describable habitat. Discover the fascinating ways they find food, mate, fight, hide and collaborate in even the most extreme conditions! And pore over more than 250 breathtakingly detailed photographs of astonishing invertebrates.With her unparalled zeal for minibeasts, Jess will enlighten you on the most fascinating and intense aspects of the minibeast world, revealing everything from cloaks made of corpses to mid-flight kamikaze mating.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781472939555
ISBN-10: 1472939557
Pagini: 128
Ilustrații: 250 colour photographs
Dimensiuni: 189 x 246 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Wildlife
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

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Packed with incredible photos of incredible minibeasts like the Cobalt Blue Tarantula, the Indian Violin Mantis and the Giraffe Weevil

Notă biografică

Dr Jess French is a passionate zoologist, naturalist and entomologist and presents CBeebies Minibeast Adventure with Jess. Jess grew up helping her dad with his exotic invertebrate-breeding business and became fascinated by minibeasts while caring for scorpions, tarantulas and a host of other creepy crawlies. Jess has degrees in zoology and veterinary medicine and surgery.@Zoologist_Jess / www.jessfrench.co.uk

Cuprins

Introducing minibeastsPart One: EatMouthpartsFinding food Ingenious feeders Farmers Pollination Bloodsuckers Part Two: PreyAttack Chase me, chase me Ambush Venom Super silk Web of deceit Traps Defence Projectiles Camouflage Marvellous mimics Colour me toxic Escape artists Brute forcePart Three: LoveCourtship Choosing a mate Ensuring paternity Anatomy Love songs Fancy footworkSlugs and snails Caring for the youngBirthday presents Birthday cakes Nests Mum's the word Devoted dads Cuckoos Glossary Author acknowledgements Photo credits Index