Nature Is the Worst: 500 Reasons You'll Never Want to Go Outside Again (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781440599071)

500 of the most absurd and horrifying things that happen in nature

Crashing waves, stunning sunsets, sprawling landscapes. Nature is beautiful, right? Wrong. Nature Is the Worst. Need proof?

• The giant pitcher plant not only eats bugs, it's large enough to trap small mammals.
• Almost 90 percent of the koala population in Australia has chlamydia.
• A hailstorm in Bangladesh in 1986 killed 92 people with giant balls of ice weighing more than 2 pounds apiece.
• Crocodiles can climb trees.
• The poisonous Dracunculus vulgaris, or voodoo lily, smells like rotting flesh, looks like it's splattered in blood, and features a central black spike that can grow up to 4 feet tall.
• Cats often kill their first litter.
• A "haboob" is a biblically-huge wall of dust that can reduce visibility to zero, reach a height of 5,000 feet and stretch as far as 100 miles wide.
• Vampire bats are totally real, and yes, they love blood.

Nature Is the Worst contains hundreds of cringe-worthy, shocking facts you never knew about nature that prove the world is a terrifying--and sometimes very strange--place.

Author: E. Reid Ross
ISBN-10: 1440599076
ISBN-13: 9781440599071
Publisher: Adams Media Corporation
Language: English
Published: 01/02/2017
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.40h x 5.40w x 0.80d