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Natural History Museum book of animal records, thousands of amazing facts and unbelievable feats, Mark Carwardine

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Natural History Museum book of animal records

Mark Carwardine

thousands of amazing facts and unbelievable feats

Here are the achievers and the unique from the animal world: mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fishes and invertebrates. These are not only familiar records like highest, fastest, largest, these are the unusual, such as slowest growth (the deep sea clam), most pecks in a day (black woodpecker), noisiest bird (booming Kakapo) and worst climber (western fence lizards fall out of their oak tree homes about 12,000 times a year). There are myth-busters -- centipedes have the most legs, not millipedes, and fascinating stories -- two dead specimens of desert snail were glued onto a museum display tablet only to come out of hibernation four years later. There is a lot of the bizarre (horned lizards from western North America can squirt blood from their eyes) and the ingenious (humpback whales use bubbles as fishing nets). The mammals, amphibians, reptiles and invertebrates are organized by animal order, family and species. Birds are organized by category

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Book of animal records