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Natuurgids 100 Bizarre Animals | Bradt Travel Guides (9781841623009)

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Some animals just look weird. Take the mandrill, whose outrageous face is coloured to mimic its genitals, or the star-nosed mole whose nose sprouts 22 fleshy tentacles. Others behave strangely – a mallee fowl builds huge mounds of rotting vegetation in which to incubate its eggs. Some are plain ingenious, such as the fog-basking beetle which stands on its head to drink from fog on the breeze (the fog condenses on its body and then trickles down to its mouth), or the cartwheeling spider which turns itself into a wheel to roll down sand dunes when it needs to make a sharp exit. Then there's the horned toad, which squirts blood from its eyes at attackers and the African egg-eating snake which has to dislocate its jaw to eat an egg three times bigger than its head. With glorious – and sometimes grotesque – full-colour photography throughout, 100 Bizarre Animalscelebrates the antics and appearance of the world's wackiest creatures.

• Follows Bradt's successful 100 Animals to See Before They Die, co-written by the same author

• A compendium of the 100 weirdest and most wonderful animals on earth with over 160 colour photographs

• Divided into sections on getting around, grabbing a bite, staying alive, showing off, passing it on and living together

The world is full of weird and wonderful creatures - and 100 particularly bizarre species are spotlighted in this new book by natural history and travel writer Mike Unwin.

As Mike points out in the introduction, no two people can agree on what are the world's strangest animals. One thing is certain: anyone dipping into this fascinating book will surely agree that the truth really is often stranger than fiction.

Who, for all example, could conjure up in their wildest dreams the desert horned lizard which, when threatened, is capable of squirting foul-smelling blood from its eyes up to a metre away?

Or the primeval-looking hoatzin bird, which has claws on its wings and effectively a stomach in its throat?

Or the spotted hyena, which can eat a gazelle fawn in two minutes flat and whose powerful jaws are 40% stronger than a leopard's?

Then there is the ground pangolin which Mike describes as "a metre-long ant-eating pinecone," the mimic octopus which "takes the art of disguise to levels previously unknown in the animal kingdom," and the large-tooth sawfish whose saw-like snout extension "belongs somewhere between lumberyard and torture chamber."


100 Bizarre Animals was inspired by Hilary Bradt, doyenne of travel guidebook publishers. Her favourite encounter was finding a leaf-nosed snake in Madagascar. "I can still recall the mixture of enchantment and astonishment that such an utterly bizarre creature could exist and my extraordinary luck at seeing one," she writes in the foreword.

As for Mike himself, he says his book is "more celebration than freak show. Its pageant of weird and wonderful animals is testimony to the sheer richness and variety of life on our planet."

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