Meet the very worst members of the animal kingdom whose continued existence is not necessarily a foregone conclusion. Our guide is New Yorker humorist Will Cuppy, a perennially perturbed hermit who thought life was out to get him. Zoologically accurate, yet hilarious, these forty brief, witty essays include distinctions between Stoats and Ermines, reasons why the Age of Reptiles simply had to come to an end, and all you need to know about creatures from the Carp to the Giant Ground Sloth. This very funny bestiary is for the naturalist-and curmudgeon-in all of us.
- ISBN10 0226128261
- ISBN13 9780226128269
- Publish Date 1 April 1983 (first published May 1965)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 September 2005
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Chicago Press
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 114
- Language English