Strange Survivors: How Organisms Attack and Defend in the by One R. Pagan PDF

By One R. Pagan

ISBN-10: 1684412986

ISBN-13: 9781684412983

ISBN-10: 1944648585

ISBN-13: 9781944648589

Life is gorgeous, ruthless, and extremely, very strange.

In the evolutionary palms race that has raged on seeing that lifestyles started, organisms have constructed an never-ending number of survival options. From sharp claws to brute power, camouflage to venom—all those instruments and talents proportion one goal: to maintain their bearer alive lengthy sufficient to breed, supporting the species stay away from extinction. each residing factor on the planet has constructed a time-tested arsenal of guns and defenses. a few of these guns and defenses, although, are decidedly more odd than others.

In Strange Survivors, biologist Oné R. Pagán takes us on a travel of the inconceivable, the inventive, and the simply undeniable strange ways in which creatures struggle for life.

Inside this humorous, attention-grabbing box advisor to nature’s so much colourful characters, you’ll meet killer snails, social micro organism, and an animal with poisonous elbows. yet Strange Survivors is greater than a suite of curiosities—it is a love letter to technological know-how and a controversy for the ongoing relevance of this evolutionary conflict as we are facing the specter of resistant micro organism and the necessity for novel clinical remedies. no matter if discussing blood-thinning bats and electrical fish or thinking about the ability of cooperation, Pagán unearths the amazing classes present in a few of life’s ordinary oddities and the way the strategies they hire to dwell may possibly reduction our personal survival.

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