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A review by kevin_shepherd
Strange Survivors: How Organisms Attack and Defend in the Game of Life by Oné R. Pagán
4.0
“If you bite it and you die, it's poisonous. If it bites you and you die, it's venomous.” -Ronald Jenner, PhD
You may have already been aware that electric catfish and poisonous frogs and toxic newts and venomous snails and spitting scorpions exist, but did you know that the anticoagulant in vampire bat saliva is called draculin? Or that a single poison dart frog has enough toxin to kill 10 grown men? Or how about the fact that close to 80% of the classified animal organisms on earth are arthropods?
I know what you’re thinking right now. You’re thinking, “what the hell is an arthropod?”
You may have already been aware that electric catfish and poisonous frogs and toxic newts and venomous snails and spitting scorpions exist, but did you know that the anticoagulant in vampire bat saliva is called draculin? Or that a single poison dart frog has enough toxin to kill 10 grown men? Or how about the fact that close to 80% of the classified animal organisms on earth are arthropods?
I know what you’re thinking right now. You’re thinking, “what the hell is an arthropod?”