ZOMBIE TITS AND ASTRONAUT FISH AND OTHER WEIRD ANIMALS
Book ID/图书代码： 13600011B51347
English Summary/英文概要： Proving that fish can swim in zero-gravity, researching the zombie-like brain-nibbling habits of fluffy little birds, and psycho-analysing the sex lives of Gulf pipefish are all in a day’s work for fearless science blogger Becky Crew. Mixing serious, up-to-the-minute science with light-hearted anthropomorphic stories, this book describes the latest findings about weird animals from all over the world.
As Roadrunner prepares to attack, the Texas Horned Lizards chat…
“Shit. We’re going to die. We’re going to die in front of girls.”
“What are you talking about? We have the most awesome weapons ever. You can make bone claws, and what’s he gonna do? Peck?”
“Hey you’re right. We should invite girls.”
“Yeah. Lots of girls. Because this will probably be the best moment of our lives.”
Those Great Tits Want Your Braaaains, Pipistrelle Bats.
As delicately pretty as it might look, the great tit (Parus major) has been gaining quite the reputation for being involved in some seriously gruesome behaviour. Driven by hunger when their normal diet of insects has grown scarce, the great tit has been known to peck open the skulls of other passerines, or “perching birds,” and also tiny pipistrelle bats...
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 对于无所畏惧的科学博客者贝基•克鲁而言，证明鱼儿能够在零重力的条件下游泳，探索毛茸茸，呆头呆脑的小鸟啄脑袋的习惯，并从心理学角度分析海湾尖嘴鱼的性生活，充斥着她妙趣横生的日常生活。这本小书完美的融合了严谨的科研成果和轻松愉悦的拟人化故事，生动形象的描绘着对千奇百怪动物世界的最新研究发现：像是伺机攻击的走鹃，耳语的德克萨斯角蜥蜴。。。“见鬼了，我们就快死了，死在姑娘们面前。”“你在胡说什么呢？我们可是有至今最棒的武器！你可以利用骨爪，噢，他要做什么？啄吗？”“或许你是对的，我们应该邀请姑娘们的。”“是的，邀请很多的姑娘。这将会成为我们生命中最棒的时刻。”这些大山雀可是觊觎着你的脑子。经管他们看上去精致小巧，但他们可是众所周知，在某些方面行径很可怕的。当他们通常赖以生存的那些昆虫数量减少时，在饥饿的驱使下，这些可怕的大山雀可是会敲开其他雀形目的头颅，甚至有时候还会是那些小型伏翼蝙蝠。。。。。。(兼职翻译-DC)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 贝基•克鲁，青年科普作家，对动物世界中各类奇怪的生物有浓厚的兴趣，其在runningponies.com 网站的博客因其严谨的科学性和诙谐的幽默，至今已吸引了众多粉丝，并于2010年被票选为澳洲最佳科普博客，并成为全国科学周重要的组成部分。目前，她在澳大利亚广播台JJJ上定期客串，并受邀在媒体大会上介绍博客，同时兼任澳大利亚一流科学杂志《宇宙》的在线编辑。2011年，其博客中的一篇文章被收入在澳洲最佳科学作品中。 Becky Crew is a young science writer with a passion for the weirdest creatures in the animal world. Her blog at runningponies.com has attracted several thousand followers with its blend of well-researched science and humour, and in 2010 was voted Best Australian Science Blog as part of National Science Week. She now has a regular science gig on Australian radio station JJJ, is invited to media conferences to discuss blogging and is the online editor for Australia’s leading science magazine, Cosmos. One of her blog entries is included in the 2011 collection of The Best Australian Science Writing.
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