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Article: MONTAGE OF INVERTEBRATE FACTS IS INFECTIOUS.(Books)(Review)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- April 13, 1997
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Byline: C.W. Buchholtz
Spineless Wonders
By Richard Conniff.
Henry Holt and Company. 222 pages. Hardcover, $25.
``This book sets out deliberately to celebrate the strangeness and wonder of both the invertebrate world and its attendant humans,'' begins author Richard Conniff.
And he fulfills that promise. His readers will learn some amazing facts about such creatures as ants, mosquitoes, squid, and even slime eels.On mosquitoes: ``Canadian researchers once sat still in such a swarm long enough to report that they suffered nine thousand bites a minute, a rate sufficient, at least in theory, to drain half their blood supply ...