Why Big Fierce Animals are Rare

Why Big Fierce Animals are Rare
Author: Paul Colinvaux
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1979-11-21
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780691023649

Here is one of the most provocative, wide-ranging, and delightful books ever written about our environment. Paul Colinvaux takes a penetrating look at the science of ecology, bringing to his subject both profound knowledge and an enthusiasm that will encourage a greater understanding of the environment and of the efforts of those who seek to preserve it.

Wild about Fierce Creatures

Wild about Fierce Creatures
Author: Camilla De la Bédoyère
Publisher:
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2019-07-18
Genre: Animals
ISBN: 9781786178282

In Wild About Fierce Creatures your child will meet the world's largest meat-eating animal, find out how secretary birds kill snakes by stamping their feet, and discover which small, shy mammal has a deadly elbow. This ferociously fascinating book is bursting with fantastic information and stunning illustrations. Simple and engaging text is presented in bite-size paragraphs, while feature panels provide fun facts, cartoons, quizzes and activities.

Fierce Predators

Fierce Predators
Author: Steve Parker
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2016-07-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1482450089

Seeing a wolf stalking its prey would be almost impossible to witness up close. It wouldn’t be safe to be so near such a deadly predator’s jaws when it’s on the hunt! But in this book, readers can see wolves, owls, and many more terrifying predators do what they do best—capture prey. Up-close, full-color photographs highlight the sharp teeth, long claws, and huge paws of some of the world’s deadliest animals. Fact boxes include fascinating information about animal bodies and behavior and statistics about each animal’s size, range, and lifespan.

Dangerous Animals

Dangerous Animals
Author: Rebecca Gilpin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2025-04
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781835405789

What makes some animals dangerous? Which animals are the fastest? And biggest? How do they hunt? Why are people more dangerous to animals than animals are to people? Find out all the answers in this book, and more, with photographs, step-by-step illustrations, simple text and links to websites with video clips and activities.

Deadly Kingdom

Deadly Kingdom
Author: Gordon D. Grice
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2010
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780385335621

Recalling his childhood encounter with a cougar on his family farm, the author of The Red Hourglass describes the life-long obsession with dangerous animals that prompted his amateur studies with virtually all dangerous creatures, from sharks and bears to alligators and spiders.

Fierce Fighters Predators

Fierce Fighters Predators
Author: Lee Martin
Publisher: becker&mayer! kids
Total Pages: 115
Release: 2017-09-19
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0760355355

Fierce Fighters Predators put the most dominant predators in the world into hypothetical fights and analyzes their power, quickness, venom, to see who would win. For the world’s fiercest predators, winning is second nature. But what would happen if they forgot their prey and battled one another, instead? Featuring dozens of the world’s greatest hunters, Fierce Fighters: Predators showcases the most epic battles imaginable between the champions of the land, sea, and sky. Grizzly versus mountain lion. Electric eel versus piranha. Orca versus great white shark. Komodo dragon versus tiger. Python versus king cobra. These aren’t just head-to-head match-ups—they are tooth-to-tooth and claw-to-claw. Deadly venom against powerful jaws. Speed and agility against brute force. Brainy mammals against cold-blooded reptiles with a survival instinct millions of years in the making. Weigh the skills of the contestants and try to guess who will emerge victorious, then check and see if the experts agree. In these dozens of earth-wide battles, can you predict the most ferocious fighters of all?

A Curious Collection of Dangerous Creatures

A Curious Collection of Dangerous Creatures
Author: Sami Bayly
Publisher: The Experiment
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2021-12-14
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1615198245

From the goliath tigerfish to the Asian hornet to the wolverine—here’s a visual treasure trove of the scariest and most dangerous animals on the planet

Fierce Creatures

Fierce Creatures
Author: Iain Johnstone
Publisher: Berkley
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1997
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781572971967

First came A Fish Called Wanda. It made Kevin Kline an Oscar-winner. It made Italian the new language of love. It made a meal of some tropical fish. But most importantly, it made money. Now comes Fierce Creatures, reuniting one of the greatest casts ever assembled--John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline and Michael Palin.

Deadly Animals

Deadly Animals
Author: Anna Claybourne
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2016-07-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 148245016X

The deadliest animal on Earth is also one of the smallest. The mosquito is a vector, or carrier, of diseases that kill millions of people every year. Readers learn about how and why this is, among other facts about animals with other deadly defenses. Full-color photographs highlight the powerful jaws of the grizzly bear, the huge horn of the rhino, and much more. Readers can see some of the world’s predators closer than would be possible, even in a zoo! In addition, fact boxes describe each animal’s behavior, size, and even endangered status.