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The Screaming Hairy Armadillo and 76 Other Animals With Weird, Wild Names

9781523508112

The Screaming Hairy Armadillo and 76 Other Animals With Weird, Wild Names

  • ISBN 13:

    9781523508112

  • ISBN 10:

    1523508116

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 09/15/2020
  • Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
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Summary

A fascinating compendium featuring over 70 unusual animal species.

What's in a name? This lively, illustrated celebration is jam-packed with creatures notable for their bizarre, baffling, and just-plain-funny names. 

Meet the White-Bellied Go-Away Bird, whose cry sounds like someone screaming, "Go away!" Or the Aye-Aye, whose name means "I don't know" in Malagasy because no one wants anything to do with this bad-luck creature. 

Some are obvious, if still weird––guess what the Fried Egg Jellyfish looks like. Others sound like an inside joke: It's easy to figure out what was on the taxonomist's mind when he christened a fly he discovered Pieza Pie

Along the way you'll learn all about these curiously named animals' just-as-curious habits, appearances, and abilities. 

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