Extremely Weird Animal Defenses

Extremely Weird Animal Defenses

Author: Sarah Lovett

Publisher: Davidson Titles Incorporated

Published: 1997-04

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9781884756320

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The series "Studies in Computational Intelligence" (SCI) publishes new developments and advances in the various areas of computational intelligence - quickly and with a high quality. The intent is to cover the theory, applications, and design methods of computational intelligence, as embedded in the fields of engineering, computer science, physics and life science, as well as the methodologies behind them. The series contains monographs, lecture notes and edited volumes in computational intelligence spanning the areas of neural networks, connectionist systems, genetic algorithms, evolutionary computation, artificial intelligence, cellular automata, self-organizing systems, soft computing, fuzzy systems, and hybrid intelligent systems. Critical to both contributors and readers are the short publication time and world-wide distribution - this permits a rapid and broad dissemination of research results. The purpose of the 1st ACIS International Conference on Computers, Networks, Systems, and Industrial Engineering (CNSI 2011) was held on May23-25, 2011 in Jeju, Jeju Island, South Korea is to bring together scientist, engineers, computer users, students to share their experiences and exchange new ideas, and research results about all aspects (theory, applications and tools) of computer and information science, and to discuss the practical challenges encountered along the way and the solutions adopted to solve them The conference organizers selected the best 22 papers from those papers accepted for presentation at the conference in order to publish them in this volume. The papers were chosen based on review scores submitted by members of the program committee, and underwent further rigorous rounds of review.


Animal Defenses

Animal Defenses

Author: Sarah Lovett

Publisher: Turtleback

Published: 1997-05-01

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9780606001854

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Describes the physical characteristics and behavior of a number of animals with unusual means of defense, including the burrfish, the gelada, and the bulldog ant.


Packed with Poison!

Packed with Poison!

Author: D. M. Souza

Publisher: Millbrook Press

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13: 0822565277

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In the ocean, a box jellyfish dangles tentacles covered with venom-filled stingers. The jellyfish uses its stingers to kill its prey. But its venom can also kill humans within minutes. The brightly colored poison dart frog is deadly to humans too. Just a speck of its poison can kill a person. These two creatures are among the most venomous and poisonous animals in the world. How do animals use their poisons? When are humans in danger?


Disgusting Animal Defenses

Disgusting Animal Defenses

Author: Ruth Owen

Publisher: Ruby Tuesday Books

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781911341017

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In the animal kingdom, it's essential to have a good means of defense when something bigger than you wants to eat you. In this book, readers will meet a lizard that squirts blood from its eyes at predators. A seabird chick that projectile vomits on an approaching enemy. And a host of animals that use slime, their poop, and other bizarre means of defense to stay safe. Packed with essential life sciences information, this gross fest of all things defense and disgusting will have readers laughing, making ewwwwwwwww noises, but most importantly, turning the pages and reading!


When Lunch Fights Back

When Lunch Fights Back

Author: Rebecca L. Johnson

Publisher: Millbrook Press

Published: 2020-08-01

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 1728412668

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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! The octopus spies a nice, tasty mantis shrimp. It swims over for a closer look at the small creature. Then—WHAM!—the mantis shrimp strikes a nasty blow with its hammer-like forelimb. The octopus shrinks back, defeated. That wasn't such an easy meal after all . . . In nature, good defenses can mean the difference between surviving a predator's attack and becoming its lunch. Some animals rely on sharp teeth and claws or camouflage. But that's only the beginning. Meet creatures with some of the strangest defenses known to science. How strange? Hagfish that can instantaneously produce oodles of gooey, slippery slime; frogs that poke their own toe bones through their skin to create claws; young birds that shoot streams of stinking poop; and more.


Prickly and Poisonous

Prickly and Poisonous

Author: Anita Ganeri

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 45

ISBN-13: 9781890409104

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Examines how various animals, fish, birds, insects, and different plants protect themselves from danger.


Animal Defenses

Animal Defenses

Author: Ogden Tanner

Publisher:

Published: 1978

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13:

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Based on the television series Wild, Wild World of Animals.


Weird Nature

Weird Nature

Author: John Downer

Publisher: Willowdale, Ont. : Firefly Books

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9781552975862

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The companion book to the six-part Discovery Channel series, Weird Nature is an astonishing exploration of nature's strangest behavior. The ingenuity of all kinds of animals is celebrated including the flying dragon or draco whose membrane wings resemble early designs for aircraft wings, spiny lobsters in Florida who form a "mass conga line" when moving to deeper waters and the Wallace tree frog whose large webbed hands and feet allow it to glide as far forward as it drops vertically. These animals and many more are featured in this revealing and often amusing look at nature. Chapters include: Fantastic feeding -- the many different ways nature finds food for fuel including worms that eat themselves. Devious defenses -- to avoid being eaten, animals have developed an array of defenses including porcupine fish that inflate into spiny balls and mantis shrimps with a punch that can knock a hole in glass. Marvelous motion -- ingenious ways of moving around including flattened snakes and flying fish. Extraordinary equipment -- tools for enhancing animal lives like the Mallee fowl that has a thermometer in its bill. Strange structures -- the bizarre assortment of animal created buildings like the palm leaf tents made by fruit bats and the Namib spider that builds a Stonehenge circle around its burrow. Weird and weirder -- social interactions including courtship and mating.


Animal Hunters

Animal Hunters

Author: Sarah Lovett

Publisher: Avalon Travel Pub

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 30

ISBN-13: 9781562613594

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Describes the physical characteristics and behavior of such unusual predators as the green tree python, the fishing spider, and the vampire bat.