DEADLEY AND INCREDIBLE ANWMALS TOP 10 Minibeasts Jay Dale
DEADLYANDINCREDIBE ANIMALS t Many animals are deadly to other animals They are deadly to their prey and sometimes even to their predators Over many thousands of years these animals have developed incredible behaviors and features to find food to defend themselves from predators and to protect their young Deadly and Incredible Features and Behaviors Different types of animals have different deadly features and behaviors Deadly and incredible features include strong jaws razor sharp teeth and stingers or fangs for injecting venom into prey Deadly and incredible behaviors include stalking hunting and distracting prey before attacking and killing it Animals such as lions use their incredible size and strength to smash crush and rip apart their prey Excellent eyesight helps many nocturnal animals hunt their prey under the cover of even the darkest night The siafu ant uses its powerful jaws to bite into its grasshopper prey
DEADLY AND INCREDIBLE MINIBEASTS OF Minibeasts are some of the world's smallest animals Although they are small these incredible animals can be deadly What Are Minibeasts IN THIS BOOK In this book you will read about the top 10 deadliest minibeasts on Earth from number 10 least deadly to number 1 most deadly There are many different opinions about which minibeasts should top this list The minibeasts in this book have been selected based on their method of capturing killing and eating prey Minibeasts are small animals such as spiders bees worms scorpions and snails They are invertebrates The minibeasts explored in this book belong to the arthropod group An arthropod has a skeleton on the outside of its body called an exoskeleton which it sheds as it grows Arthropods can be sorted into smaller groups based on their features MINIBEAST GROUPS Invertebrates Arthropods Insects Arachnids All adult insects have six legs and most I have wings and three separate body sections head thorax and abdomen Examples emerald cockroach wasp Africanized honey bee P Siafu ant Japanese giant hornet All adult arachnids have two separate body sections cephalothorax and abdomen and most have eight walking legs Examples goliath birdeater tarantula wolf spider black widow spider deathstalker scorpion Sydney funnel web spider Brazilian wandering spider
