Dive into the weird and wonderful world of nature with 'Freaky Fauna: Tales of the Unusual and Extraordinary in the Animal Kingdom.' Explore bizarre behaviors, astonishing adaptations, and strange creatures in this captivating eBook filled with fascinating stories from the animal kingdom.

Whether it’s terrifyingly long tusks, odd mating behavior, or strange egg-laying, many animals have some freaky features. In this book, readers enjoy dozens of the weirdest creatures found on every continent, from owls to octopuses and butterflies to toads. Full-color photographs bring each unique animal closer than a reader could ever get in the wild and complement detailed, interesting entries about the Surinam toad, the glasswing butterfly, and many, many more. Information about those at risk or endangered supports readers’ understanding of conservation.

Animals are a wild and wonderful part of our world. However, some animals and their stories are a little wilder than others! This fascinating book explores some of the animal kingdom’s freakiest specimens and strangest scenarios—like the true tale of a two-headed housecat named “Frankenlouie,” and of a chicken named Mike who lived for 18 months after getting his head chopped off! High-interest subject matter and amazingly freaky photographs will captivate readers, and enthralling sidebars and fact boxes present even more unbelievable—but true!—information about some of the most outrageous animals on Earth.

Explore some of the most peculiar and hideous animals in the skies in this volume. Easy-to-digest text accompanies harder-to-stomach photographs, which will surely attract more reluctant readers. Supplemented with a further reading section and a list of web resources to encourage readers to keep learning after closing the cover.

Animals are a familiar part of most people's lives, from household pets to farm animals to backyard birds, but the animal world holds an enormous number of weird and freaky stories. This fascinating book is the second volume in this popular series to explore such stories. Readers will be thrilled to learn about animal oddities like creatures with night-vision goggles, organisms that are almost invisible, and even the swarm of bees that followed a car for two days to rescue their trapped queen. Absorbing text and vivid images will keep readers engaged. Captions, sidebars, fun facts, and a graphic organizer enrich the narrative.

This book addresses the persistence of meat consumption and the use of animals as food in spite of significant challenges to their environmental and ethical legitimacy. Drawing on Foucault’s regime of power/knowledge/pleasure, and theorizations of the gaze, it identifies what contributes to the persistent edibility of ‘food’ animals even, and particularly, as this edibility is increasingly critiqued. Beginning with the question of how animals, and their bodies, are variously mapped by humans according to their use value, it gradually unpacks the roots of our domination of ‘food’ animals – a domination distinguished by the literal embodiment of the ‘other’. The logics of this embodied domination are approached in three inter-related parts that explore, respectively, how knowledge, sensory and emotional associations, and visibility work together to render animal’s bodies as edible flesh. The book concludes by exploring how to more effectively challenge the ‘entitled gaze’ that maintains ‘food’ animals as persistently edible.

101 Freaky Animals reveals the planet's most unusual animals! From the blobfish to the axolotil, each page has simple blocks of text, numbered facts, kid-friendly information, and full-colour photographs of 101 of the most bizarre animals on Earth.