Bats Sing, Mice Giggle: The Surprising Science of Animals' Inner Lives
A Nature, Animals, Natural History book. Also surprising to scientists have been the recently documented virgin births in captivity of several types...
"Amazing, moving and enlightening. Bats Sing, Mice Giggle presents the latest findings on the intimate lives of animals with great elegance. I recommend it wholeheartedly."—Larry King"Did you know that spiders taste with their feet, that a decapitated cockroach can live for two weeks, that a certain type of parrotfish wraps itself in a sort of foul-smelling snot before taking a nap, and that ants play? I didn't until I read Bats Sing, Mice Giggle." —New Scientist“Full of interesting facts . . . presented in a friendly, readable way that will appeal to most young adult and adult readers with an interest in the world around them....
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Also surprising to scientists have been the recently documented virgin births in captivity of several types of sharksthe hammerhead, the bonnethead (also known as the shovelhead), and the blacktip. Karen Shanor, Bats Sing, Mice Giggle: The Surprising Science of Animals' Inner Lives // What they discovered was that not only fish, but spiders and many insects can taste their food by the structures that are most likely to first come in contact with the food. And this in many invertebrate species turns out to be the feet. Karen Shanor, Bats Sing, Mice Giggle: The Surprising Science of Animals' Inner Lives // Research suggests that the earliest flying reptiles swallowed small pieces of volcanic rock and could breathe out flammable gases like hydrogen produced in their own bodies. It is hypothesized that their ingenious fire breath was used as a defense against predatory reptiles. Karen Shanor, Bats Sing, Mice Giggle: The Surprising Science of Animals' Inner Lives //
Though the adage warns readers not to judge books by their covers, there should also be a warning about not basing expectations on titles! From the rather cutesy title, I really expected this book to be filled with more adorable anecdotes on animals. There were some of these stories, but just not the quantity that I expected. It was... 50 Book Reading Challenge 2015: A book with bad reviewsOk...so I am aware that this book doesn't have terrible reviews on Goodreads, but its lower than what I normally read and I am not much of a fan, so I classified it as my "book with bad reviews". If not for the information about bats sprinkled throughout the book, I may have stopped... I really wanted to enjoy this one but found it hard going. Lacked cohesion and some of the paragraphs stuttered - there was no continuous flow! And when there was the technical jargon was a bit much and took me out of the book so the results were the same for each chapter. As I've started to ascribe to the "life's too short to read...
