Animals do the strangest things /

Hornblow, Leonora,

Animals do the strangest things / by Leonora and Arthur Hornblow ; illustrated by Keith Kohler. - New York : Random House, c1964. - 61 p. : col. ill. ; - Step-up books. Step-up nature books. .

Describes nineteen animals that have peculiar and strange characteristics, including the platypus which has poison spurs on its legs, the opossum which fools its enemies by pretending to be dead, and the bat which navigates by built-in sonar.

0394800567 (pbk.) 0394900561 (lib. bdg.)


Animals--Miscellanea--Juvenile literature.
Animals--Habits and behavior.

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