Jess French

Minibeasts with Jess French (eBook, ePUB)

Masses of mindblowing minibeast facts!

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Fancy meeting a foot-long centipede or a spider the size of your dinner plate? Willing to let the world's weirdest and most fascinating minibeasts join you on your sofa?

Then allow Jess French to lead you head first through the unbelievable world of invertebrates and explore their incredible adaptations, from dancing scorpions and blood-sucking moths to zombie spiders and slime-shooting worms.

Marvel at how minibeasts have evolved to survive in almost every describable habitat. Discover the fascinating ways they find food, mate, fight, hide and collaborate in even the most extreme conditions! And pore over more than 250 breathtakingly detailed photographs of astonishing invertebrates.

With her unparalled zeal for minibeasts, Jess will enlighten you on the most fascinating and intense aspects of the minibeast world, revealing everything from cloaks made of corpses to mid-flight kamikaze mating.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472939548
• Artikelnr.: 54260866

Autorenporträt

Dr Jess French is a passionate zoologist, naturalist and entomologist and presents CBeebies Minibeast Adventure with Jess. Jess grew up helping her dad with his exotic invertebrate-breeding business and became fascinated by minibeasts while caring for scorpions, tarantulas and a host of other creepy crawlies. Jess has degrees in zoology and veterinary medicine and surgery.
@Zoologist_Jess / www.jessfrench.co.uk

Inhaltsangabe

Introducing minibeasts Part One: Eat Mouthparts Finding food Ingenious
feeders Farmers Pollination Bloodsuckers Part Two: Prey Attack Chase me,
chase me Ambush Venom Super silk Web of deceit Traps Defence Projectiles
Camouflage Marvellous mimics Colour me toxic Escape artists Brute force
Part Three: Love Courtship Choosing a mate Ensuring paternity Anatomy Love
songs Fancy footwork Slugs and snails Caring for the young Birthday
presents Birthday cakes Nests Mum's the word Devoted dads Cuckoos Glossary
Author acknowledgements Photo credits Index