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Moths That Drink Elephants' Tears: And Other Zoological Curiosities

Moths That Drink Elephants' Tears: And Other Zoological Curiosities

by Matt Walker (Author)

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    Hardcover 2006

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Synopsis

The first professionally researched miscellany guide to the animal kingdom, packed with fascinating and bizarre facts. Did you know that the male flour beetle is the only animal which can mate and impregnate a female he has never met? That virgin male butterflies make better lovers than more experienced ones? Or that rats can learn the difference between Dutch and Japanese? Moths that Drink Elephants' Tears is an entertaining and addictive collection of eclectic insights and unusual facts, detailing the wondrous diversity of animal life that surrounds us.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 216
 Edition: 1st
 Publisher: Piatkus Books
Published: 05 Oct 2006
ISBN 10: 0749951281
ISBN 13: 9780749951283

Media Reviews
'Journalist Matt Walker works for New Scientist magazine, and thus knows how to make science entertaining.' SUNDAY AGE '...a nicely structured journey through the most recent discoveries in animal biology and should excite novices as well as revive the interest of the most jaded researchers. NEW SCIENTIST
Author Bio
Matt Walker is one of the world's leading science journalists, being a senior editor at New Scientist, a magazine which has a global readership of over 750,000 people. He joined the magazine in 1999, and has also lectured at New Scientist conferences, as well as at the Royal Institution.