Dangerous to Man
Author: Roger A. Caras
Publisher: Holt McDougal
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 9780030144417
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Roger A. Caras
Publisher: Holt McDougal
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 9780030144417
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Gordon Grice
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2012-01-31
Total Pages: 446
ISBN-13: 110157223X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Whether at a zoo, on a camping trip, or under our bedsheets, we are surrounded by animals. While most are perfectly harmless, it's the magnificent exceptions that populate The Book of Deadly Animals. Award-winning writer Gordon Grice takes readers on a tour of the animal kingdom—from grizzly bears to great white sharks, big cats to crocodiles. Every page overflows with astonishing facts about Earth's great predators and unforgettable stories of their encounters with humans, all delivered in Grice's signature dark comic style. Illustrated with awe-inspiring photographs of beasts and bugs, this wondrous work will horrify, delight, and amaze.
Author: Michael J. Tougias
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: 2007-11-27
Total Pages: 833
ISBN-13: 1429930616
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Since we humans have evolved into the dominant species on this planet, we sometimes fail to recognize--and respect--the ever-present threat posed by the animals we love or fear, hunt or fight to protect. Many of nature's most lethal residents have combative skills that have been honed by millions of years of adaptive survival, and it takes only a second for an otherwise evolved individual to become a helpless victim. WHEN MAN IS THE PREY is a one-of-a-kind collection of real-life encounters between man and beast that explores the uneasy relationship that humanity has with its native habitat. From bears, boars, and black dogs to swimming with sharks and dancing with wolves, the stories in WHEN MAN IS THE PREY offer a fascinating, frightening, and enlightening look at the natural world and its many creatures.
Author: Gordon Grice
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2012-04-05
Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 0241963869
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Consider, if you can, the case of Jacob Fowler, who heard what he thought was the sound of his own skull cracking between the jaws of a grizzly bear - only to discover that it was. Or the Arizonan jogger who ran a mile back to her car with a rabid fox clamped to her arm before driving to hospital for live-saving inoculations. Or the woman who was attacked by a hyena, dragged from her tent by her face and survived to tell of her ordeal. The dangers of the animal kingdom are the stuff of legend but the reality of man's vulnerability and of nature's savage power is far more various, improbable and chilling than even the most active imagination would fear. In this unique work of nature writing, you will encounter the most formidable predators on land and sea - as well as the most overlooked, bizarre and inventive hazards that mother nature has to offer. Meet the cougar that can leap 40 feet and clear 8-foot fences with a fully-grown deer in its jaws, the tapeworm that's been known to grow as long as 82 feet in the human gut and the elephant that single-handedly destroyed an oil tanker. Drawing on an enormous host of true encounters between man and beast, this is the world's most authoritative compendium of animal attacks on human beings. With mordant wit and expert timing, Gordon Grice provides a gripping journey to the dark side of the animal kingdom and a celebration of its humbling, savage glory. (Originally published in hardback as The Book of Deadly Animals.)
Author: Ohio. Department of Natural Resources
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 7
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Allen B. Ury
Publisher: Lowell House
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9780737300420
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Recounts real-life encounters between people and wild animals. Includes advice for avoiding such attacks.
Author: Paula Hammond
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780761478706
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In vivid detail this atlas takes account of fifty of the most dangerous animals on earth.
Author: Karen McGhee
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Published: 2021-12-15
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 1538274590
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →All over the world, there are animals that use their venom, claws, jaws, and more to take down prey. From ambush killers like crocodiles to lions who stalk and pounce to kill their prey, this book has it all. Up-close photographs of deadly animals readers likely would never see in person, like the terrifying Brazilian wandering spider, accompany detailed facts about how dangerous each animal is as well as their size, body adaptations, and habitat. The relative danger to people is covered, particularly for animals, like hippos, that are known to harm many people.
Author: Don Zaidle
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781571570567
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The truth about the dozens of killings and maulings that occur in North America each year by cougars, black bears, grizzly bears and other aggressive animals.