When Lunch Fights Back: Wickedly Clever Animal Defenses (Library Binding) (ISBN-13: 9781467721097)

The octopus spies a nice, tasty mantis shrimp. It swims over for a closer look at the small creature. Then--WHAM!--the mantis shrimp strikes a nasty blow with its hammer-like forelimb. The octopus shrinks back, defeated. That wasn't such an easy meal after all . . .

In nature, good defenses can mean the difference between surviving a predator's attack and becoming its lunch. Some animals rely on sharp teeth and claws or camouflage. But that's only the beginning. Meet creatures with some of the strangest defenses known to science. How strange? Hagfish that can instantaneously produce oodles of gooey, slippery slime; frogs that poke their own toe bones through their skin to create claws; young birds that shoot streams of stinking poop; and more.

Author: Rebecca L. Johnson
ISBN-10: 1467721093
ISBN-13: 9781467721097
Publisher: Millbrook Press (Tm)
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2014
Pages: 48
Format: Library Binding
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.80h x 10.00w x 0.50d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.9
Point Value: 1
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 167386 / When Lunch Fights Back: Wickedly Clever Animal Defenses

Award: Cybils - Finalist

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2014
School Library Journal 07/01/2014 pg. 118
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 11/01/2014 pg. 160
Booklist 10/15/2014 pg. 41