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The book of deadly animals / Gordon Grice.

by Grice, Gordon (Gordon D.).

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New York : Penguin Books, 2012.

Dangerous animals.

9780143120742 (pbk.)

0143120743 (pbk.)

xxvii, 382 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

The carnivorids. Wolves, dogs, and their kin ; The bears ; The cats ; The hyenas ; Other carnivorids -- Aquatic dangers. Sharks and their relatives ; The bony fish ; The whales ; An assortment of aquatic dangers -- The reptiles and birds. The snakes ; The crocodilians ; The lizards ; The birds -- The arthropods and worms. The arachnids and myriapods ; The insects ; The worms -- Other mammals. The hoofed mammals ; The elephants ; The rodents ; The bats ; A miscellany of minor mammal dangers ; Monkeys, apes, and their kin.

Describes the author's life-long obsession with dangerous animals that prompted his amateur studies with virtually all dangerous creatures, from sharks and bears to alligators and spiders.

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