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Red-eyed tree frogs sleep camouflaged on green leaves, but if disturbed they flash their bulging red eyes, startling predators
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Snow leopards can leap the length of four Sumatran rhinos in one stride.
Great white sharks can leap completely out of the water while attacking prey.
Orcas are considered the top predator of the ocean – sometimes scaring away great white sharks from their hunting grounds.
Humans and giraffes have the same number of bones in their necks – seven!
Fossilised dinosaur bones can be smelly.
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The back of a giraffe has a small hump on it, similar to a camel’s.
The male ring-tailed lemur, native to the African island of Madagascar, produces a smelly substance from its wrists, rubs it on its tail, and then waves its tail in the air to attract mates.
Some swan species swim with one of their feet tucked on their backs.
Island life
White rhinos and black rhinos are the same colour – grey.
To impress females, male blue-footed boobies show off the bright colour of their feet by doing a highstepped dance.
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Author: Julie Beer • Illustrator: Andy Smith Ages: 8+ years • Price: £10.99 Format: Hardback • Extent: 208 pages Size: 207 x 153 mm • Pub date: 6th April 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9137507-2-5 This book will make you ROAR with laughter! Discover facts about escaping penguins, farting zebras, leaping dolphins, snorting elephants, dancing bears and more – all connected in weird and wonderful ways. Did you know that beavers have orange teeth? Or that some monkeys floss their teeth using bird feathers? Or that one species of bird can walk underwater? Or that alligators stay underwater for longer by swallowing rocks? Or that sea otters use rocks to crack open prey? Welcome to Animal FACTopia, a purrfectly amazing world of facts, all of which are verified by Encyclopaedia Britannica. Every fact in this book is connected to the next in a fascinating web of information, where you will leapfrog from topic to topic in surprising and hilarious ways. Sometimes your path branches and you can slide down a rabbit hole to a totally different, but still connected, part of the book. Discover where your curiosity will take you! Author Julie Beer is an author and editor, who has written numerous children’s books on everything from national parks to space to her favourite subject of all – animals! Julie is based in California, USA. Illustrator Andy Smith is an award-winning illustrator, and studied illustration at the University of Brighton and the Royal College of Art, London. His work combines illustration and typography to create images that have humour, energy and optimism executed with a handmade, hand-printed, tactile feel. He lives by the sea in Hastings, East Sussex.
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