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Author
Publisher
Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
268 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
"Parasites can live only inside another animal and, as Kathleen McAuliffe reveals, these tiny organisms have many evolutionary motives for manipulating the behavior of their hosts. With astonishing precision, parasites can coax rats to approach cats, spiders to transform the patterns of their webs, and fish to draw the attention of birds that then swoop down to feast on them. We humans are hardly immune to their influence. Organisms we pick up from...
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