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    Pirk, W: Weird Canadian Animals: Fascinating, Bizarre and Astonishing Facts from Canada's Animal Kingdom

     
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    Pirk, W: Weird Canadian Animals: Fascinating, Bizarre and Astonishing Facts from Canada's Animal Kingdom

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    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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    EAN/ISBN:
    9781897278529
    Edition:
    UK ed.
    Medium:
    Paperback
    Number of pages:
    216
    Publication date:
    2009-05-19
    Publisher:
    Blue Bike Books
    EAN/ISBN:
    9781897278529
    Edition:
    UK ed.
    Medium:
    Paperback
    Number of pages:
    216
    Publication date:
    2009-05-19
    Publisher:
    Blue Bike Books

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