Big Game: A Rhino Horn Is Made of Fingernail
The horn a poacher will kill a rhinoceros for is keratin. The same material as your fingernails, growing out of a patch of skin. That is most of the tragedy...
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Belly Up: A Dead Hippo and a Real Necropsy
Your nine year old wants funny. You want the reading to be doing something. On most shelves those two want different books, and this is one of the places they...
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Bear Bottom: Bison Genetics Under the Bear Jokes
This one is a comedy with a mystery inside it, and the animal content is thinner than the cover promises. Saying that first saves you the disappointment later.
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Ape Escape: The Real Price of One Baby Gorilla
Nobody takes a baby gorilla quietly. An infant lives inside a family that will defend it, and that is the arithmetic sitting underneath this entire book.
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All Ears: What an Elephant Says That You Cannot Hear
A herd of elephants walks onto a lit football field on a Friday night, in front of a full stand. Nobody in the bleachers hears the part that matters.
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Race to the South Pole: Polar Travel Is Arithmetic
A man dragging a sledge across Antarctica burns more food in a day than he can carry for a day. Everything else about polar travel comes out of that one...
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