Brady Barr

Chomp!

Fierce facts about the BITE FORCE, CRUSHING JAWS, and MIGHTY TEETH of Earth's champion chewers

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National Geographic Explorer and snake wrangler Dr. Brady Barr has been bitten by a lot of creatures over the years. So this book is born from first hand - er, tooth - experience of getting close to some of the biggest biters in the animal kingdom. It turns out that there's a lot more to biting than meets the eye. Physical features and the how (and when and why) an animal bites reveals much about the animal itself. Chomp! highlights an array of awesome creatures with a diversity of chomp styles - from shredders and slicers to grippers and gulpers. Then it shows how tooth type, bite force, jaw shape, and food source all come to together to m… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-4263-2840-4
EAN: 9781426328404
Produktnummer: 20951613
Verlag: National Geographic
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Seitenangabe: 96 S.
Sonstiges: Ab 7 - 10 J.

Über den Autor

During his career, herpotologist DR. BRADY BARR has traveled to five continents, worked with hundreds of scientists, suffered from dozens of bruises, and escaped from some very close calls while working with some of the world's wildest and most dangerous creatures. He is a resident explorer with National Geographic and has many books, articles, and televsion shows to his credit, including Nat Geo WILD'sDangerous Encounters and The Brady Barr Experience shows and the National Geographic chapter books Scrapes with Snakes and Crocodile Encounters.