Singer, Marilyn.

A strange place to call home : the world's most dangerous habitats & the animals that call them home / Marilyn Singer & Ed Young. - San Francisco : Chronicle Books, c2012. - 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.

Think cold: Humboldt penguins -- Think heat: snow monkeys -- Dry as dust: spadefoot toads -- Frozen solid: ice worms -- Out of sight: blind cave fish -- Salt of the earth: flamingos -- Down in the depths: tube worms -- Top of the world: mountain goats -- On the rocks: limpets -- Wall of sand: camels -- A fish in the air: mudskippers -- A bird in the water: dippers -- Well-oiled: petroleum flies -- City living: urban foxes.

Poems about fourteen animals who defy the odds by thriving in Earth's most dangerous places where they live.

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Animals--Habitations--Poetry.
Animals--Poetry.

JN 571.1 / .S617 2012