- 272 pages
- English
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About this book
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?
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.
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Yes, you can access Nature is the Worst by E. Reid Ross in PDF and/or ePUB format. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Publisher
Adams MediaYear
2017Print ISBN
9781440599071eBook ISBN
9781440599088Table 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