Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Nature Calls (Uncle John's Bathroom Readers)

Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Nature Calls (Uncle John's Bathroom Readers)

Bathroom Readers' Institute

Language: English

Pages: 436

ISBN: 1607104288

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


It’s a wild world out there, and the folks at the BRI want to explore it with you. From hornywinks to Dracula orchids, from alluvium to zymogen, Uncle John is embarking on a back-country safari to track down the wackiest, weirdest, silliest, and most amazing stories about the natural world. It’s 448 wild pages of great outdoor facts, strange stories, incredible science, and fun quotes and quizzes. You’ll feel the fresh mountain air energize you as you read about . . .

An ape that fries burgers and a lizard that plays video games
The explosive history of America’s deepest (and bluest) lake
The search for the mysterious rhinoceros dolphin
How to distinguish a mushroom from a toadstool
Cats vs. birds: the Feline-Avian War
A waterfall that turns toys to stone
The history of dirt
And much, much more!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

E.E. Cummings described the natural world. That about sums it up for us, but we thought (this being a nature book) we’d offer a few more perspectives. “You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.” —Alan Watts “Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes—every form of animate or inanimate existence leaves its impress upon the soul of man.” —Orison Swett Marden “To

livestock, whereas the other two species—the white-winged vampire bat and the hairy-legged vampire bat—drink the blood of birds. • The world’s smallest bat is the Kitti’s hog-nosed bat, also called the bumblebee bat, native to Thailand and Burma. It measures just 1⅓ inches in length, with a wingspan of about 6 inches. The largest bat is the Giant golden-crowned flying fox, native to the Philippines. It’s about 13 inches long, with a wingspan of more than 4 feet. • Bracken Cave located near San

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and tend to the queen, who gives birth to a colony of as many as 300 individuals. Naked mole rats can run backward and forward equally as fast, because they use their face or tail whiskers to navigate rather than their eyes. 7. a. Meerkats live in southern Africa in mobs (groups) of up to 25 animals. The award-winning TV series Meerkat Manor followed the lives of a mob called the Whiskers, which was led by a very successful matriarch named Flower. For five years, Flower helped the Whiskers

growing when the hair reaches a half inch to two inches in length. • Hair grows faster in warmer weather. • Hair does not continue to grow after death, but because the skin shrinks, it sometimes looks like it does. 90 percent of plants depend on fungi for their survival. • Trichophagia is the term for compulsively eating your own hair. The disorder is sometimes accompanied by trichotillomania, obsessively pulling your hair. Unlike cats, humans aren’t able to cough up a hairball—human

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