Description

A fascinating compendium featuring over 70 unusual animal species.

What s in a name? This lively, illustrated celebration is jam-packed with creatures notable for their bizarre, baffling, and just-plain-funny names. 

Meet the White-Bellied Go-Away Bird, whose cry sounds like someone screaming, Go away! Or the Aye-Aye, whose name means I don t know in Malagasy because no one wants anything to do with this bad-luck creature. 

Some are obvious, if still weird––guess what the Fried Egg Jellyfish looks like. Others sound like an inside joke: It s easy to figure out what was on the taxonomist s mind when he christened a fly he discovered Pieza Pie. 

Along the way you ll learn all about these curiously named animals just-as-curious habits, appearances, and abilities.