When Lunch Fights Back: Wickedly Clever Animal Defenses

When Lunch Fights Back: Wickedly Clever Animal Defenses

by Rebecca L. Johnson
When Lunch Fights Back: Wickedly Clever Animal Defenses

When Lunch Fights Back: Wickedly Clever Animal Defenses

by Rebecca L. Johnson

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Overview

The octopus spies a nice, tasty mantis shrimp. It swims over for a closer look at the small creature. Then—WHAM!—the mantis shrimp strikes a nasty blow with its hammer-like forelimb. The octopus shrinks back, defeated. That wasn't such an easy meal after all . . .

In nature, good defenses can mean the difference between surviving a predator's attack and becoming its lunch. Some animals rely on sharp teeth and claws or camouflage. But that's only the beginning. Meet creatures with some of the strangest defenses known to science. How strange? Hagfish that can instantaneously produce oodles of gooey, slippery slime; frogs that poke their own toe bones through their skin to create claws; young birds that shoot streams of stinking poop; and more.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781512400007
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group
Publication date: 08/01/2015
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 48
Sales rank: 359,799
Product dimensions: 9.30(w) x 9.50(h) x 0.20(d)
Lexile: 920L (what's this?)
Age Range: 10 - 11 Years

About the Author

Rebecca L. Johnson writes award-winning nonfiction for children and young adults about scientific discoveries and the scientists who make them. She hopes her books will inspire new generations of scientists by introducing readers to some of the remarkable species with whom we share the planet. Learn more at www.rebeccajohnsonbooks.com.
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