The Screaming Hairy Armadillo and 76 Other Animals with Weird, Wild Names - Matthew Murrie, Steve Murrie

A fascinating compendium featuring over 70 unusual animal species. Whats 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 dont 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: Its easy to figure out what was on the taxonomists mind when he christened a fly he discovered Pieza Pie.  Along the way youll learn all about these curiously named animals just-as-curious habits, appearances, and abilities.