Nature is the Worst

500 reasons you'll never want to go outside again

E. Reid Ross

• Publisher: Adams Media
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN:
  9781440599088
• Print ISBN:
  9781440599071

500 of the most absurd and horrifying things that happen in nature!
 
Crashing waves, stunning sunsets, sprawling landscapes. Nature is beautiful, right? Wrong. Nature Is the Worst. Need proof?

• The giant pitcher plant not only eats bugs, it's large enough to trap small mammals.
• Almost 90 percent of the koala population in Australia has chlamydia.
• A hailstorm in Bangladesh in 1986 killed 92 people with giant balls of ice weighing more than 2 pounds apiece.
• Crocodiles can climb trees.
• The poisonous Dracunculus vulgaris, or voodoo lily, smells like rotting flesh, looks like it's splattered in blood, and features a central black spike that can grow up to 4 feet tall.
• Cats often kill their first litter.
• A "haboob" is a biblically-huge wall of dust that can reduce visibility to zero, reach a height of 5,000 feet and stretch as far as 100 miles wide.
• Vampire bats are totally real, and yes, they love blood.

Nature Is the Worst contains hundreds of cringe-worthy, shocking facts you never knew about nature that prove the world is a terrifying--and sometimes very strange--place.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Denizens of the Deep and Lurkers of the Lakes
• Chapter 2: Backstabbing Birds and Other Airborne Atrocities
• Chapter 3: Pernicious Parasites and Baleful Bacteria
• Chapter 4: Insidious Insects, Surreptitious Spiders, and Other Vindictive Vermin
• Chapter 5: Menacing Mammal Maliciousness
• Chapter 6: Poisonous Plants and Fearsome Fungi
• Chapter 7: Ravenous Reptiles and Appalling Amphibians
• Chapter 8: Wrathful Weather and Other Nefarious Natural Phenomena