Zombie Tits, Astronaut Fish and Other Weird Animals

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Did you know that the peacock mantis shrimp has the most powerful punch on Earth That vampire spiders are attracted to your smelly socks That the lesser water boatman is the loudest animal in the world and its instrument is its own penis Or that concave-eared frogs have a secret language that only males can hear From the mother-eating black-lace weaver spiders to Texas horned lizards that can shoot jets of poisonous blood from their eyes, this book from fearless science blogger Becky Crew will introduce you to a menagerie of the world's weirdest animals.

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"This quirky little blog serves up science with a healthy dose of snark." --Jennifer Ouellette, science writer, "Washington Post", "Nature", and "New Scientist", on "Running Ponies"

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Becky Crew is online editor of the Australian magazine "COSMOS," the cofounder of the "Running Ponies" blog, and the recipient of the Australian Science Blogger of the Year Award. ""