# The Screaming Hairy Armadillo and 76 Other Animals with Weird, Wild Names

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- Authors: [Julie Benbassat](https://www.bookquiver.com/julie-benbassat), [Matthew Murrie](https://www.bookquiver.com/matthew-murrie), [Steve Murrie](https://www.bookquiver.com/steve-murrie)
- Publisher: workman_children_s
- ISBN: 978-15-2350-811-2
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2020-09-15
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A fascinating compendium featuring over 70 unusual animal species. What's 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 don't 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: It's easy to figure out what was on the taxonomist's mind when he christened a fly he discovered Pieza Pie. Along the way you'll learn all about these curiously named animals' just-as-curious habits, appearances, and abilities.