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Ick!, delightfully disgusting animal dinners, dwellings, and defenses, Melissa Stewart

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Ick!

Melissa Stewart

delightfully disgusting animal dinners, dwellings, and defenses

From award-winning author Melissa Stewart comes the grossest journey through the animal world you'll ever take. From ants to zebras, get ready to discover some seriously strange animal behaviors. Slurp up soupy insides with houseflies, spit sticky saliva to build nests with birds, and fend off predators with poop-flinging caterpillars and farting snakes. And that's just the tip of the dung pile! These yucky habits may seem surprising to us, but they're totally normal for these animals. In fact, their survival depends on them

Disgusting Dinners -- Those Rascally Rabbits -- All in the Family -- Slurping Up Supper -- A Helpful Head -- Pups That Love Puke -- A Flood of Cud -- What's in Your Honey? -- Toxic Toots -- Out for Blood -- Friend or Foe? -- Yum! Ant Brains -- I Nibbling on Nails -- Munching on Mom -- Good to the Last Drop -- Snacking on Siblings -- Disgusting Dwellings -- An Odorous Abode -- A Fondness for Feces -- Mega-Mounds -- Built With Spit -- A Mouth as a House? -- Empty Eggshells -- One Weird Worm -- Packed With Pee -- At Home on Humans -- Dig In! -- A Slimy Sleeping Bag -- A Cozy Cocoon -- A Brilliant Barricade -- A Toad-al Surprise -- Disgusting Defenses -- Fling That Frass! -- Protected by Poop -- A Duck's Dung Defense -- Protected by Pee -- Pick a Trick -- It's Slime Time! -- A Burst of Blue -- The Furry Faker -- Squirt Alert! -- A Shower of Stinky Splatter -- Spit-acular Snakes -- A Slimy Escape -- Packed With Poison -- Blasts of Gas! -- Ferocious Fish -- A Disgusting Disguise

juvenile

Delightfully disgusting animal dinners, dwellings, and defenses