Every creeping thing : true tales of faintly repulsive wildlife / Richard Conniff ; illustrations by Sally J. Bensusen.
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New York :
H. Holt,
©1998.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: healthy terror
- Days of torpor, nights of sloth
- The devilbird of Nonsuch
- The cave of the bats
- Good scents
- Looking for Mr. Griz
- What's nice? Mice
- Cormorant heaven
- Acting like animals
- A mouse like a spear
- Sharks, part one: great white hunter
- Sharks, part two: how sharks got into such deep soup
- A porcupine would rather be left alone
- Notes from the underground
- Jungle days
- Sleeping with snapping turtles
- Epilogue: black hound.