Heartwarming, surprising, and downright bizarre creature connections Relationships can be complicated, and it’s no different in the wild. Meet 60 dynamic duos across the plant and animal kingdoms—from “aww” to “eek”! The Eltham copper butterfly and the Notoncus ant are BFFs for life. The ants lovingly raise the butterflies’ caterpillar babies, while feasting on the sweet substance the caterpillars produce. Everybody wins in this prime example of mutualism. The pseudoscorpian is a total freeloader. When it wants to get around, it boards the back of the giant harlequin beetle, in a one-sided…mehr
Heartwarming, surprising, and downright bizarre creature connections Relationships can be complicated, and it’s no different in the wild. Meet 60 dynamic duos across the plant and animal kingdoms—from “aww” to “eek”! The Eltham copper butterfly and the Notoncus ant are BFFs for life. The ants lovingly raise the butterflies’ caterpillar babies, while feasting on the sweet substance the caterpillars produce. Everybody wins in this prime example of mutualism. The pseudoscorpian is a total freeloader. When it wants to get around, it boards the back of the giant harlequin beetle, in a one-sided setup called commensalism. Parasitism is where things get spooky. Learn how the green-banded broodsac (a type of flatworm) first invades the eyestalk of the amber snail, then tricks it into getting eaten by a bird—inside which the broodsac will grow up. Yikes! Award-winning author and illustrator Sami Bayly shows us a whole world of wild companions like these—many endangered—and reminds us that we're all inseparable. Publisher’s Note: A Curious Collection of Wild Companions was previously published in Australia as The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Peculiar Pairs in Nature.
Sami Bayly is a natural history illustrator who loves all things weird and wonderful. She finds the beauty and importance of all animals regardless of their appearance. Her first book, A Curious Collection of Peculiar Creatures, won the Children’s Indie Book of the Year Award and the Australian Book Design Award for Younger Readers. It was a CBCA Honour Book and was shortlisted for an ABIA Book of the Year for Younger Children and longlisted for the ABA Booksellers’ Choice 2020 Book of the Year Awards. Her second book, A Curious Collection of Dangerous Creatures, was a CBCA Honour Book, an ABIA Book of the Year for Younger Children, won an Australian Book Design Award for Younger Readers, and was shortlisted for the Children’s Indie Book of the Year 2020.
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Contents: Introduction 1. Acacia Ant and the Bullhorn Acacia 2. African Death’s-head Hawkmoth and the Western Honey Bee 3. Australian Clownfish and the Bubble-tip Anemone 4. Barnacle and Grey Whale 5. Bell Miner, Psyllid and the Eucalyptus 6. Blue-banded Bee and the Climbing Guinea Flower 7. Boxer Crab and the Sea Anemone 8. Brown-throated Three-toed Sloth and the Sloth Moth 9. Canberra Grassland Earless Dragon and the Garden Wolf Spider 10. Candy Stripe Pistol Shrimp and the Black-ray Goby 11. Cape Sugarbird and the King Protea 12. Cattle Egret and Grazing Animals 13. Colombian Lesserblack Tarantula and the Dotted Humming Frog 14. Common Jack Mackerel and the Tongue-biting Louse 15. Common Warthog and the Banded Mongoose 16. Desert Quandong and the Emu 17. Eastern Screech Owl and the Texas Blind Snake 18. Egyptian Spiny-tailed Lizard and the Arabian Fattail Scorpion 19. Emperor Shrimp and the Spanish Dancer 20. Femme Fatale Firefly and the Common Eastern Firefly 21. Fig Wasp and the Moreton Bay Fig 22. Fire Urchin and the Carrier Crab 23. Galapagos Dove and the opuntia Cactus 24. Glossy Black Cockatoo and the Drooping She-oak 25. Golden Ant and the Ant Plant 26. Golden-tipped Bat and the Australian Garden Orb Weaver Spider 27. Golden Jackal and the Bengal Tiger 28. Green-banded Broodsac and the Amber Snail 29. Green-thighed Frog and Rain 30. Green Sea Turtle and the Yellow Tang 31. Grey Wolf and the Common Raven 32. Kinkajou and the Balsa Tree 33. Leadbeater’s Possum and the Goblin Flea 34. Leopard Coral Grouper and the Bluestreak Cleaner Wrasse 35. Little Red Flying Fox and Flowering Eucalypts 36. Lord Howe Island Stick Insect and the Melaleuca 37. Marine Iguana and the Floreana Lava Lizard 38. Mind-controlling Parasite, Cat and the Common Rat 39. Monarch Butterfly and the Viceroy Butterfly 40. Mountain Pygmy Possum and Heath’s Tick 41. Mountain Treeshrew and the Pitcher Plant 42. Nile Crocodile and the Egyptian Plover 43. Northern Bettong and the Truffle 44. Ocean Sunfish and the Laysan Albatross 45. Oceanic Whitetip Shark and the Pilot Fish 46. Painted Honeyeater and the Grey Mistletoe 47. Pea Crab and the Blue Mussel 48. Pinhead Pearlfish and the Leopard Sea Cucumber 49. Pink-tailed Worm Lizard and the Tyrant Ant 50. Pseudoscorpion and the Giant Harlequin Beetle 51. Red Weaver Ant and the Soft Scale Bug 52. Reef Manta Ray and the White Suckerfish 53. Scarlet Banksia and Fire 54. Sponge Decorator Crab and Sea Sponges 55. Spotted Handfish and the Sea Squirt 56. Stinking Corpse Lily and the Liana Vine 57. Sweet Bursaria, the Eltham Copper Butterfly and the Notoncus Ant 58. Trigger Plant and the Reed Bee 59. Vampire Finch and the Nazca Booby 60. Verco’s Nudibranch and the Bryozoan About the Author
Contents: Introduction 1. Acacia Ant and the Bullhorn Acacia 2. African Death’s-head Hawkmoth and the Western Honey Bee 3. Australian Clownfish and the Bubble-tip Anemone 4. Barnacle and Grey Whale 5. Bell Miner, Psyllid and the Eucalyptus 6. Blue-banded Bee and the Climbing Guinea Flower 7. Boxer Crab and the Sea Anemone 8. Brown-throated Three-toed Sloth and the Sloth Moth 9. Canberra Grassland Earless Dragon and the Garden Wolf Spider 10. Candy Stripe Pistol Shrimp and the Black-ray Goby 11. Cape Sugarbird and the King Protea 12. Cattle Egret and Grazing Animals 13. Colombian Lesserblack Tarantula and the Dotted Humming Frog 14. Common Jack Mackerel and the Tongue-biting Louse 15. Common Warthog and the Banded Mongoose 16. Desert Quandong and the Emu 17. Eastern Screech Owl and the Texas Blind Snake 18. Egyptian Spiny-tailed Lizard and the Arabian Fattail Scorpion 19. Emperor Shrimp and the Spanish Dancer 20. Femme Fatale Firefly and the Common Eastern Firefly 21. Fig Wasp and the Moreton Bay Fig 22. Fire Urchin and the Carrier Crab 23. Galapagos Dove and the opuntia Cactus 24. Glossy Black Cockatoo and the Drooping She-oak 25. Golden Ant and the Ant Plant 26. Golden-tipped Bat and the Australian Garden Orb Weaver Spider 27. Golden Jackal and the Bengal Tiger 28. Green-banded Broodsac and the Amber Snail 29. Green-thighed Frog and Rain 30. Green Sea Turtle and the Yellow Tang 31. Grey Wolf and the Common Raven 32. Kinkajou and the Balsa Tree 33. Leadbeater’s Possum and the Goblin Flea 34. Leopard Coral Grouper and the Bluestreak Cleaner Wrasse 35. Little Red Flying Fox and Flowering Eucalypts 36. Lord Howe Island Stick Insect and the Melaleuca 37. Marine Iguana and the Floreana Lava Lizard 38. Mind-controlling Parasite, Cat and the Common Rat 39. Monarch Butterfly and the Viceroy Butterfly 40. Mountain Pygmy Possum and Heath’s Tick 41. Mountain Treeshrew and the Pitcher Plant 42. Nile Crocodile and the Egyptian Plover 43. Northern Bettong and the Truffle 44. Ocean Sunfish and the Laysan Albatross 45. Oceanic Whitetip Shark and the Pilot Fish 46. Painted Honeyeater and the Grey Mistletoe 47. Pea Crab and the Blue Mussel 48. Pinhead Pearlfish and the Leopard Sea Cucumber 49. Pink-tailed Worm Lizard and the Tyrant Ant 50. Pseudoscorpion and the Giant Harlequin Beetle 51. Red Weaver Ant and the Soft Scale Bug 52. Reef Manta Ray and the White Suckerfish 53. Scarlet Banksia and Fire 54. Sponge Decorator Crab and Sea Sponges 55. Spotted Handfish and the Sea Squirt 56. Stinking Corpse Lily and the Liana Vine 57. Sweet Bursaria, the Eltham Copper Butterfly and the Notoncus Ant 58. Trigger Plant and the Reed Bee 59. Vampire Finch and the Nazca Booby 60. Verco’s Nudibranch and the Bryozoan About the Author
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