Extreme Nature

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Mark Carwardine. Extreme Nature

Extreme Nature

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Contents

Introduction

Extreme Abilities

Most devious plant

Strangest boxer

Most explosive defence

Most poisonous animal

Most ingenious tool-maker

Most gruesome partnership

Best electro-detector

Stickiest skin

Deadliest plant

Biggest blood-sucker

Keenest sense of smell

Most enthusiastic singer

Most gruesome tongue

Most inquisitive bird

Biggest drug-user

Most painful stinger

Slipperiest plant

Heaviest drinker

Best mimic

Most formidable killer

Best architect

Most painful tree

Loudest bird call

Deadliest drooler

Most sensitive slasher

Smelliest plant

Most impressive comeback

Hottest animal

Most shocking animal

Coldest animal

Most talkative animal

Most bizarre defence

Smelliest animal

Slimiest animal

Keenest hearing

Stickiest spitter

Best colour vision

Most dangerous snake

Extreme Movement

Strangest hitchhiker

Highest jumper

Largest swarms

Deepest diver

Longest non-stop flyer

Most upside-down animal

Most inflatable animal

Heaviest flying animal

Strangest shape-shifter

Fastest flying animal

Greatest sticking power

Largest flying scavenger

Most legs

Speediest sucker

Best long-distance swimmer

Deepest-living animal

Fastest-moving plant

Greatest gathering of birds

Best boring animal

Strongest animal

Best surfer

Earliest-rising songster

Fastest digger

Longest toes

Fastest swimmer

Best water-walker

Fastest long-distance runner

Most elastic tongue

Scariest scamperers

Best glider

Biggest sleep-over

Fastest sprinter

Longest migration

Biggest hunting army

Sleepiest animal

Extreme Growth

Longest fangs

Greatest number of teeth

Fastest-growing plant

Smallest fish

Most gargantuan of growths

Heaviest land animal

Oldest living animal

Smallest reptile

Longest whiskers

Oldest surviving fish

Largest wingspan

Most elastic animal

Longest snake

Tallest living thing

Biggest brain

Largest superorganism

Longest tongue

Most numerous animal

Biggest bird

Largest animal ever

Longest weapons

Oldest living clone

Longest hair

Hairiest animal

Biggest mouth

Most feathers

Tallest animal

Most impressive tooth

Largest eyes

Heaviest living thing

Fattest carnivore

Longest fin

Largest flower

Smallest amphibian

Most elongated fish

Baggiest animal

Oldest leaves

Rarest animal

Tiniest mammal

Oldest surviving seed plant

Largest reptile

Heaviest tree dweller

Flattest animal

Biggest canopy

Extreme Families

Deadliest love life

Strangest incubation

Most agile embryo

Male with the most mates

Flashiest male

Greatest number of spores

Longest continuous incubation

Most artistic suitor

Most sex organs

Tastiest sex

Strangest nuptial gift

Longest lasting love bite

Biggest seed

Greatest mass egg-laying

Largest egg

Shortest mammal gestation

Sexiest immaculate conception

Most fertile animal

Largest nest

Strangest society

Sexiest promotion

Most extreme sex act

Biggest orgy

Most colourful male

Sexiest animal

Most traumatic insemination

Sparkliest animal

Most imaginative use of dung

Oldest juvenile

Most quarrelsome siblings

Greatest sex divide

Longest pregnancy

Strangest Nesting Material

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Index

Acknowledgements

About the Publisher

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Mark Cawardine

With Rosamund Kidman Cox

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