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Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'
The Truth about Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales from the Wild Side of Wildlife by Lucy Cooke
8 reviews
kimac's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Sexual content, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Animal cruelty, Death, and Body horror
kirstym25's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Sexual content, and Animal death
Moderate: Religious bigotry
Minor: Pedophilia and Incest
ericaw212's review
4.5
Graphic: Animal death and Animal cruelty
illustriousnewt's review against another edition
2.0
Graphic: Animal cruelty
bluejay21's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Religious bigotry
skylacine's review against another edition
3.5
Full review at: https://skybookcorner.blogspot.com/2023/02/book-review-unexpected-truth-about.html
Moderate: Animal death and Animal cruelty
Minor: Pedophilia, Sexual violence, and Incest
shelleyrae's review against another edition
5.0
- Despite billions of dollars and the best of modern technology, we still are not certain how or where the Anguilla anguilla (Eel) reproduce.
- The sloth’s neck has more vertebrae than any other mammal’s, even the giraffe’s.
- Vultures have been used to detect gas leaks in pipelines
- To determine how bats are able to fly in the dark, Italian Catholic priest Lazzaro Spallanzani experimented by systematically removing their eyeballs, plugging their ears and noses, cutting off their tongues, and coating them in varnish.
- From the 1940s through to the 1960s the world’s first reliable pregnancy test came courtesy of a small, bug-eyed frog. When injected with a pregnant woman’s urine, the amphibian squirted out eggs eight to twelve hours later to confirm a positive result.
- Storks were exterminated in Britain because the church was offended by the ‘pagan’ belief that they played a part in bringing a couple a baby.
- Hippopotamuses secrete a substance that is acts as sunscreen, fly repellent and antiseptic.
- Pandas might look cute and harmless but the powerful muscles in the panda’s cheeks deliver a bite force almost equal to a lion’s.
- Adélie penguins exchange sex for pebbles from single males to shore up their nests.
Graphic: Sexual content, Animal cruelty, and Animal death
libbet's review
4.0
Graphic: Animal cruelty