The Screaming Hairy Armadillo and 76 Other Animals with Weird, Wild Names

By Matthew Murrie and Steve Murrie

Book Overview

A fascinating compendium featuring over 70 unusual animal species.

What's in a name? This lively, illustrated celebration is jam-packed with creatures notable for their bizarre, baffling, and just-plain-funny names.

Meet the White-Bellied Go-Away Bird, whose cry sounds like someone screaming, "Go away " Or the Aye-Aye, whose name means "I don't know" in Malagasy because no one wants anything to do with this bad-luck creature.

Some are obvious, if still weird--guess what the Fried Egg Jellyfish looks like. Others sound like an inside joke: It's easy to figure out what was on the taxonomist's mind when he christened a fly he discovered Pieza Pie.

Along the way you'll learn all about these curiously named animals' just-as-curious habits, appearances, and abilities.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1523508116
• ISBN13: 9781523508112
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Workman Kids
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.0" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 7 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 5