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Mother Nature Is Trying to Kill You

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Mother Nature Is Trying to Kill You

Dan Riskin
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It may be a wonderful world, but as Dan Riskin (cohost of Discovery Canada's Daily Planet) explains, it's also a dangerous, disturbing, and disgusting one. At every turn, it seems, living things are trying to eat us, poison us, use our bodies as their homes, or have us spread their eggs. In Mother Nature Is Trying to Kill You, Riskin is our guide through the natural world at its most gloriously ruthless.
Using the seven deadly sins as a road map, Riskin offers dozens of jaw-dropping examples that illuminate how brutal nature can truly be. From slothful worms that hide in your body for up to thirty years to wrathful snails with poisonous harpoons that can kill you in less than five minutes to lustful ducks that have orgasms faster than you can blink, these fascinating accounts reveal the candid truth about "gentle" Mother Nature's true colors.
Riskin's passion for the strange and his enthusiastic expertise bring Earth's most fascinating flora and...

Publisher:
Touchstone
Language:
english
ISBN 10:
1476707561
ISBN 13:
9781476707563
File:
EPUB, 3.84 MB
IPFS:
CID , CID Blake2b
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