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Gorgeous eyelashes. Flashy feathers. Silky hair. The animals in this book are far from drab and dull.

Big noses. Weird bodies. Crazy colors. The creatures in this book are far from your average backyard animal.

Lots of teeth. Long legs. Beady eyes. The animals in this audiobook are far from cute and cuddly.

With big eyes and ears and colorful bodies, a lot of creatures in nature look very cute. But don’t be fooled by their adorable appearance. When provoked, these animals can easily injure or kill a person. Their defense mechanisms like poison and sharp teeth and claws can turn them from darling to deadly. Get ready to discover some of the world’s cutest killers.

Did you know that there are animals all around you that you can’t see without a microscope? Sometimes it’s good you can’t see them. As you shed dead skin cells, thousands of dust mites gobble them up. Gross!

Zombies love to feast on brains and flesh - so do some organisms in nature! Listeners will learn all about creatures that eat brains.

Scrub all you want, but you'll never get your body entirely clean. From rash causing itch mites to bacteria swimming in your stomach, meet the tiny creatures hitching a ride on your body.

This series gives listeners a better look at some of the animals within the animal kingdom that use camouflage as a defense. Each title will introduce the animal, where it can be found on the globe, and how it uses camouflage to survive.

You're probably familiar with many of the common categories scientists use for animals: warm-blooded or cold-blooded, nocturnal or diurnal. But what about the animals that don't fit in? Sharks cannot be classified as warm or cold-blooded—they are somewhere in-between. And Eurasian eagle owls don't hunt during the day or night. Instead, they swoop through the trees at dawn and dusk. Author and science educator Jessica Fries-Gaither introduces eight common categories scientists use and the animals that break those rules.