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mimicking 10, 50–51, feet 7, 134–135 giraffe weevils 88 hippopotamuses 48, 94
70–71 webbed 39, 73, glass frog 65 honeybees 15
skunks 14–15 101 gliding animals 45, 93 horned vipers 83
desert habitats 98, 158 fennec foxes 98 goblin sharks 131 horns 82–83, 158
disguises 50–51, 68–69, fighting 83, 94–95, 151 golden eagles 103 horses 107, 143
71, 122–123 fingerprints 20–21 golden jewel beetles horseshoe crabs 167
displays 10, 83 fins 34–35, 48 168 house mice 24
mating 141, 160–161 fish 34–35, 100–101, golden poison frogs 89 howls 36–37
dogs 20, 23, 79, 102, 139 139, 151 golden silk spiders 154 humans 20–21, 42, 75,
body size 142–143 deep-sea 130–131 golden tortoise beetles 98, 100, 113, 147, 169
dolphins 22, 44, 112 hunting 10–11 45 hummingbirds 48, 81,
dragonflies 84–85, 103 fishing animals 80, Goliath beetles 168 148–149
duck-billed platypuses 96–97 Goliath frogs 64 hunters 9, 10–11,
38–39 flight 30, 44, 92–93 Goliath hagfish 56 102–103, 113
Dumbo octopuses 131 mammals 40–41 grasshopper mice 37 hyacinth gliders 84–85
dung beetles 90–91 flounders 50–51 grasshoppers 13 hyacinth macaws 59
dwarf chameleons 73 flukes 48 Great Barrier Reef,
dwarf lanternsharks 53 flying fish 45 Australia 128–129 I
dwarf seahorses 111 flying mammals 40–41 Great Danes 142 icefish 99
footprints 134–135 greater birds of paradise impalas 44
E fossils 166–167 161 inland taipan 61
eagles 103, 108–109, foxes 15, 98, 108–109, greater bulldog bats 43 insects 17, 24, 45, 88,
138 137, 139 great white sharks 9, 74 113, 118
echolocation 40 frigatebirds 44, 160 green anacondas 61 as prey 10–11, 22–23,
eclectus parrots 155 froglets 144, 145 Greenland sharks 111 146, 169
ecotourism 76 frogs 45, 59, 89, 98 green turtles 128 entomologists 117
eels 113, 131 frogspawn 152–153 grey herons 95 nests 120, 121
eggs 117, 150–151, 154, stomachs 64–65 grey partridges 150 Italian scorpions 156
157, 169 tadpoles 144–145 grey wolves 36–37
frogspawn 144, fur 14, 38 growth 142–143, J
152–153 144–145, 164–165, jacanas 135
mammals 39 G 168 jaguars 28–29
electrical impulses 9, Gaboon vipers 60 guinea pigs 79 Japanese giant spider
38–39 Galapagos tortoises Gulf corvinas 43 crabs 67
electric catfish 113 110–111 gulls 137 jawfish 157
electric eels 113 garter snakes 24, 25 jaws 73, 74–75, 86, 106
electric shocks 113 gastric eversion 64–65 H jellyfish 52–53, 54–55,
elephants 45, 75, 134, geckos 45, 75 hagfish 56–57 89
169 geese 93 hairless animals 78–79 jumping animals 11, 44,
elephant seals 112, 113, gender differences hammerhead sharks 9 118
154–155 154–155 handfish 34–35
emperor penguins 99, gentoo penguins 100 harbour porpoises 103 K
112, 169 geometrid moths 70–71 hares 44 kangaroo rats 44
endangered species 32, gharials 162–163 hawksbill sea turtles kangaroos 44, 94, 113,
126 giant anteaters 86–87, 151 137, 168
entomologists 117 88 herbivores 75 keratin 83
exoskeletons 67 giant armadillos 74, 88 hermit crabs 51, kestrels 104–105
exploding ants 12–13 giant clams 129 114–115 killer whales (orcas)
giant oceanic manta rays see also crabs 100–101
F 76–77 herons 95 kiwis 81, 169
falcons 112, 136 giant pandas 63, herring gulls 137 koalas 20, 21, 31
feeding 146–147, 126–127, 147, 157, 168 Himalayan jumping kodiak bears 62
148–149, 168, 169 giraffes 88, 95, 169 spiders 118 komodo dragons 94, 103

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