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8 Wanted: the wild bunch
Killer animals
Chapter 1: NATURE’S NASTIES
10 Shark attack
20 Bloodsuckers!
How and why sharks
attack humans
Animals that feed on blood
22 Stingers
12 Shark and awe!
CONTENTS Nocturnal animals 32 Poisonous plants
Animals that sting
Comic strip about surviving
24 Poison perils
a shark attack
Poisonous animals
14 Fight or flight?
26 Swarm!
How to survive animal encounters
Animals that hunt in groups
16 Cute outfit, nasty surprise
28 Monsters of the deep
Cuddly animals with a nasty streak
Deep-sea creatures
18 Night stalkers
30 How about a dip?
Animals lurking in the shallows
Chapter 2: PRECARIOUS PLANET Plants to stay away from
52 Volcano!
54 Quake, rattle, and roll
36 Ice race! Volatile volcanoes
Frozen environments Earthquakes
38 Savage seas 56 What the blazes?
Ocean hazards Destructive fire
58 Mighty wind carnival
Potential perils in the infamous triangle Wild windstorms
40 Bermuda Triangle
42 Desert salon 60 Watercolors
Desert dangers Fatal floods
44 Jungle perils! 62 Freaky weather
What lurks in the jungle?
64 The totally toxic table of pollutants
46 Lost in the jungle / Weird weather
No place for amateurs
Two comic strips about survival
66 Global warming
Climate change and its effects
in the jungle Pollution perils
48 Caves
Underground perils 68 Apocalypse now!
50 Mountain madness The end of the world
Mountain dangers, from base camp
to the summit Two comic strips about Chapter 3: SPOOKY SPACE
72 Rockets and parachutes
The dangers of liftoff and
reentering Earth’s atmosphere
80 Home, sweet home
74 Space surgery
The solar system
The effects of space on the body
82 Pimp my spaceship!
76 The first dogmonaut /
Long-haul space travel
Mission meltdown
84 Deep space
Earthlings in space
Dangerous space matter
86 Time travel
78 Space alert
Is it possible?
88 Are we alone?
Chapter 4: SCARY SCIENCE
92 Mad scientists Dangers in orbit Alien encounters
Scientists who experimented
on themselves
104 Radioactive!
94 Top secret Radioactivity and its uses
Secret laboratories 106 The most dangerous equation
96 In the name of science
Einstein’s famous e=mc²…
and what it led to
Strange experiments
98 Kabooooom! The forces that keep planes in
108 Dangerous journeys
The history of explosives
the air and boats afloat
100 Biohazard gallery
110 Crash course
Biological hazards that cause disease
The science behind a crash
102 Frankenstein’s pet store
112 Captain John Paul Stapp
Animals modified by scientific intervention
Comic strip about a human
crash-test dummy
(c) 2011 Dorling Kindersley. All Rights Reserved.
