QI The Pocket Book of Animals

Author: John Mitchinson and John Lloyd

From the QI team that brought ignorance to millions, QI The Pocket Book of Animals by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson is a Christmas bestseller and a wonderful handbook of animal facts, now in a handy pocket-sized edition.

Filled with animal facts and figures, this book helps you to learn about koalas that don't drink, geese that mourn their dead and lobsters that live for a century.

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Summary

Filled with animal facts and figures, this book helps you to learn about koalas that don't drink, geese that mourn their dead and lobsters that live for a century.

Description

From the team that brought ignorance to millions - full of illuminating illustrations, maps and diagrams - shrunk down to a pocket-friendly, easily-searchable, portability-considerate size.

About the Author

John Lloyd and John Mitchinson, supported by a crack research squad of QI elves, are the authors of the bestselling The Book of General Ignorance. Ted Dewan is one of the UK's best known children's authors and illustrators.

Back Cover

Welcome to the QI Zoo . . .Albatrosses can fly non-stop for ten yearsBox jellyfish have twenty-four eyes but no bottomWorms get addicted to nicotineFrom the bestselling writers of the hit BBC show QI, The Book of Animal Ignorance is now available in this handy pocket-sized edition.This bestiary for the twenty-first century features water bears that can live in suspension for hundreds of years, the parasite carried by your cat that makes men grumpy and women promiscuous, and pigs that shine in the dark.

More on this Book

Meet the water bears that can live in suspension for hundreds of years, the parasite carried by your cat that makes men grumpy and women promiscuous, and the woodlouse that drinks through its bottom. Marvel at elephants that walk on tiptoe, the pigs that shine in the dark, and the woodpeckers that have ears on the end of their tongues...From the team that brought ignorance to millions - full of illuminating illustrations, maps and diagrams - shrunk down to a pocket-friendly, easily-searchable, portability-considerate size.