Presents the various types of defenses mechanisms used by animals, including the bone spikes of the African hairy frog, the deadly poison of the blue-spotted N. taracua termite, and the hammer-like punch of the peacock mantis shrimp.
Good defenses can make the difference between surviving a predator's attack and becoming its lunch. This book profiles nine animals and one plant with particularly noxious defense mechanisms.
- ISBN10 1467721093
- ISBN13 9781467721097
- Publish Date 1 August 2014
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Lerner Publishing Group
- Format Hardcover (Library Binding)
- Pages 48
- Language English