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The Strangest Things in the World: A Book About Extraordinary Manifestations of Nature

"THE STRANGEST THINGS IN THE WORLD - A Book About Extraordinary Manifestations of Nature" This title sums up the wonderful line up in this book. Short pieces about the strange and often bewildering things that occur in our world, from the insect that is born pregnant, to the fearsome poison arrow frog and about 170 others. If you like odd facts and weird plants and animals, this collection will delight you. So pick something interesting and enjoy reading it. The author is one of the world’s best-known and most respected science writers. This book is a personal and unique distillation of the wisdom he has developed in a lifetime of dealing with man’s effort to resolve the paradoxes of nature.- from the Introduction (Summary by phil c and the introduction)

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The Invisible Underground Jungle (Marie Christian)
The Self-Perpetuating Sponge (Marie Christian)
Living “Stars” in Caves (Marie Christian)
Parenthood Among Penguins (Marie Christian)
The Strategy of Warrior Ants (Marie Christian)
Uganda’s Miniature Dinosaur. (Kerry Adams)
The Strange Ways of Spiders (maxmagnus99)
Worms With a Thousand Eyes (Darrell Nobles)
Queer Fish, But Definitely (Oris99)
Love Life Among the Spiders (Tia Wright)
The Lace Weavers (elibishop)
The Ways of Crabs (Tia Wright)
Ticks With Noses in Their Legs (Kerry Adams)
The Fourth Realm of Life (Tia Wright)
Rubber-Band Worms that Stretch and Stretch (Tom Merritt)
Frog Versatility (Tom Merritt)
The Horned Viper Spears Other Animals (lagrange123)
The World of Insects (Winnifred Assmann)
Gigantic Serpents of the Sky (Larry Wilson)
The Limbless Lizard (RajVO)
The Maddening Tarantula (bkelle)
A Flower That Grows Through Solid Ice (Krista Zaleski)
The Versatile Ant Farmers (ToniM)
Ostracoderms: Ancestors of True Fish (Larry Wilson)
The Ever Faithful Hornbills (Jananiram)
Ants With Tailor Skills (bkelle)
Fiend Symphonies of the Jungle (Tia Wright)
Tyrants of the Polychaete Race (Larry Wilson)
Eating Habits of Spiders (bkelle)
The Suicide Instinct of Iguanas (Tia Wright)
Forests That Eat Meat (Oris99)
Cave-Dwelling Birds (Winnifred Assmann)
Where Snails Become Flowers (Mike Manolakes)
Termites That Eat Lead (Mike Manolakes)
The Plant That Eats Animals (Tom Merritt)
The Ocean’s Sound Barrier (Krista Zaleski)
Snakes That Act and Look Like Worms (Tia Wright)
A Porcupine of the Sea (Krista Zaleski)
Worms That Are Unkillable (inararabbani)
The Remarkable Brachiopods (Oris99)
Feathers on Birds Adapt to the Seasons (Larry Wilson)
Why the Dodo Became Extinct (Krista Zaleski)
The Shark of the Soil (Tia Wright)
The Sleeping Habits of Mammals (Tia Wright)
The Eerie Eyes of Animals at Night (Larry Wilson)
World of the Blind (Tia Wright)
The Remarkable Clam Worms (gnels17)
Winged Reptile (Larry Wilson)
Vicious Fire Ants (Larry Wilson)
The Architectural Genius of Birds (lagrange123)
The Ferocious Leech Worms (lagrange123)
The Complex Spider’s Web (Larry Wilson)
Monsters of the Deep: The Great Squids (Andrea Kotzer)
The Vanishing Whippoorwill (Larry Wilson)
Ants Can Smell Almost Anything (Winnifred Assmann)
Fish That Fish For Fish (ABVoice)
Worms That Are Flowers (Krista Zaleski)
The Heavy Toll of Bird Migrations (ToniM)
Deadly Snakes That Take Life Easy (Andrea Kotzer)
Weird Plant-Animals (Winston Smith)
Weird Ways of Birds (Kevin Waters)
The Fantastic Sea Horse (Krista Zaleski)
The Great Seal Migrations (Mike Manolakes)
Monsters With Buzz Saws (Mike Manolakes)
Two-Headed Snakes Aren’t Rare (Ben Tucker)
Fantastic Sea Creatures (Winston Smith)
The Varieties of Raven Language (ChristosPax)
Worms With Hypodermic Needles (Winston Smith)
The Fatal Black Widow Spider (Kevin Waters)
Plants That are Animated (Tia Wright)
The Tomato—Cinderella of Vegetables (Tia Wright)
The Holiest Place on Earth (Kevin Waters)
The Vanishing Golden Carpet (Andrea Kotzer)
Evolution of the Bird (Tom Merritt)
Speed Ace of the Air (Kerry Adams)
The Remarkable Instincts of the Silk Worm (Tom Merritt)
The Strange World of the Sea (Lynn Marie)
The Cannibal Birds of the Pacific (Tia Wright)
Eagles as Indian Pets (Kerry Adams)
The Giant Insects of the Carolines (Andrea Kotzer)
The Valley Where Dusk is Death (Kevin Waters)
Enigma of Evolution: the Snake (Tom Merritt)
The Fastest Growth on Earth (Tom Merritt)
Birds That Duel (mleigh)
Brakes on Plant Life (Mike Manolakes)
Snails Are the Flowers of the Sea (Krista Zaleski)
The Brutal South Pole Birds (Krista Zaleski)
Silk-Bearded Clams (JimLawter)
Pearls Grow in Brooks (Tia Wright)
Grasshopper-Infested Glaciers (Kerry Adams)
Monster Clams of Polynesia (Tia Wright)
Corals Combine Plants and Animal Life (Winston Smith)
The First Engineers—Termites (Winston Smith)
Oyster Oddities (Tom Merritt)
The World’s Biggest Sneeze (mleigh)
The Luminescent Ctenophores (ChristosPax)
The Forest That Time Forgot (Ben Tucker)
The Versatility of the Elephant’s Trunk (Tia Wright)
Fiendish Vampires of the Night (Ben Tucker)
Remarkable Orchids (Kevin Waters)
Nature’s Insecticide: The Millipede (Winston Smith)
Bats Have Built-in Radar (Kevin Waters)
Crabs That Climb Trees (Kevin Waters)
The Ferocious Centipede (lbleath)
The Plant That Makes Men Dumb (Kevin Waters)
The Scourge of the Earth: Locusts (Kevin Waters)
Trees Can Grow Smaller (Tia Wright)
Underworld Cities (juliaviolin)
Plants That Create Mirages (mleigh)
The Octopus Worm: Evolution’s Mystery (Caleb Stagayama)
The Monster Bear of Kamchatka (Caleb Stagayama)
Strange Denizens of the Deep (Krista Zaleski)
Communism Among the Bees (emilyz)
Candles on Bushes (Winnifred Assmann)
The Desert Rat Manufactures Water (Kerry Adams)
The Caste System of the Termite (czandra)
The Shark That Stands Upright (redfalcon1009)
The Dead Man’s Vine (Ben Tucker)
The Insect With Fourteen Lives (Laurie Banza)
Shyness Characteristic of Giant Rats (Kerry Adams)
Nocturnal Potto (Kerry Adams)
Where Trees are Square (mleigh)
The Lamp That is a Beetle (SherlHolmesMD)
Rainstorms of Worms (SherlHolmesMD)
The Icy Arctic Wonderland (czandra)
Fish That Live on Land (Winnifred Assmann)
The Special Language of Bees (Tom Merritt)
Poisonous Platters of the Sea (Larry Wilson)
Our Un-American Food (Larry Wilson)
Worms That Commit Mass Suicide (mleigh)
Fish That Survive Freezing (Steve Mayer)
Plants That Kill (Steve Mayer)
Caterpillars That Pretend to be Snakes (Steve Mayer)
All Plants Are Luminous (Steve Mayer)
Worms That Live in the Snow (Steve Mayer)
The Strange Ways of Snails (Steve Mayer)
Vision-Producing Plants (Steve Mayer)
The Abominable Snow Man (mleigh)
Fish That Sing in the Moonlight (Andrea Kotzer)
Brazil’s Vicious Glow Worm (Kerry Adams)
Grasshoppers Like Chameleons (Margaret Lange)
Beetles That Helped an Army (czandra)
Worms in Medical History (Larry Wilson)
Toads That Make Poison Gas (Larry Wilson)
Plants That Thrive on Ice-Bloom (Larry Wilson)
Poison Arrow Frogs (Tia Wright)
The Seal That Can “Lose” Its Head (JimLawter)
The Delectable Horned Viper (Kerry Adams)
Flying Snakes, Frogs and Toads (Laurie Banza)
Eagles Build Log Cabin Nests (czandra)
The Predatory Mantid (Tia Wright)
Fireflies as Electricians (Krista Zaleski)
The Mollusk Vampire of Hell (Ben Tucker)
Climbing and Flying Frogs (CadenB)
Mad Dog Cycles (CadenB)
The Amazing Survival of the Opossum (CadenB)
Mammal Prototypes of the “Mermaid” (CadenB)
Limbless Lizards and Glass Snakes (CadenB)
The Only Bug in the Sea (CadenB)
A Crocodile With Life After Death (ABC123yuv)
The Salamander That Lives Like a Worm (Sarah Rothwell)
Three-eyed Lizards of New Zealand (VOSolutions)
Prodigious Fertility of Insects (SherlHolmesMD)
The Lizard That Runs Out of Its Own Skin (Sarah Rothwell)
High Living in the Himalayas (mleigh)
Barking Spider Monkeys (Sarah Rothwell)
The Insect That is Born Pregnant (SheriLynnWarren)
Bull-dog Animals (Lee Vogler)
Foresight of Kangaroo Rats (czandra)
The Primitive Proturans (Sarah Rothwell)
Air-Conditioned Homes of Beavers (mleigh)
The Demon of Puerto Rico (KNashVox)
Man-Made Plants (KNashVox)
The Great Seal Migration (KNashVox)
The Magic Bark of the Cinchona Tree (KNashVox)
Colombia’s Ant Tree (KNashVox)
The Strange Behavior of Plants (Brianna Chiles)
Venezuela’s Nocturnal Orchid (Brianna Chiles)
The Plant That Strikes Men Dumb (Brianna Chiles)
Combat of Moth and Shrew (Brianna Chiles)
The Ferocious Snake Weasel (Lee Vogler)
The Rabbit That Swims (mleigh)
Gorilla Warriors of the Belgian Congo. (Dyefferson Azevedo)
The Biggest “Rat” in the World (Brianna Chiles)
The Suicide Marches of Lemmings (bkelle)
The Ferocity of the Tiger (docdlmartin)
The Fearsome Porcupine (docdlmartin)
The Plant That Stimulates Visions (docdlmartin)
The Puzzling Platypus (Krista Zaleski)
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