Everything You Know About Animals is Wrong

Ostriches don't bury their heads in the sand, lemmings don't leap to their deaths, and daddy long legs aren't secretly deadly. This light-hearted guide gleefully debunks the myths and misconceptions that persist about the animal kingdom, from familiar sayings to widely believed "facts" that simply aren't true. Written in an inimitable, humorous style, it takes on everything from the real king of the jungle to what it actually means to be as blind as a bat or a fish out of water. Nothing about animals, it turns out, is quite as it seems.