Download PDF by Frank W. Lane: Animal Wonder World: A Chronicle of the Unusual in Nature

By Frank W. Lane

ISBN-10: 1590774442

ISBN-13: 9781590774441

This is an enthralling sequence of essays on animal habit, written in 1951 by way of the be aware British technology author Frank W. Lane, finds vague and engaging oddities of animal habit. The transparent, logical clarification at the back of every one weird and wonderful occurring grounds the observations in medical study, and gives smooth readers perception on mid-century clinical box methodology.

Here are many of the instances featured during this marvelous compilation: Do bees inform time and inform one another of honey destinations? Can video game animals evade bullets? Have fish an ear for track? Do birds hitch hike on each one other’s backs? those questions and millions of others are responded with clinical proof.

Natural heritage fanatics, background of technology buffs, and explorers of nature will locate hours of attention-grabbing analyzing inside of. a real mine of conversational fabric and arbiter of video game controversies!

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