Mother Nature Is Trying to Kill You

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This “fact-filled and amusing trek through nature’s dark side” (Kirkus Reviews) reveals the bizarre and often perverse ways Mother Nature looks out for herself. While it’s a wonderful world, Dan Riskin (host of Animal Planet’s Monsters Inside Me) illustrates that it’s also dangerous and disturbing. Living things constantly attempt to eat us, poison us, or use our bodies as homes. Riskin serves as our guide through nature's ruthless landscape, employing the seven deadly sins as a framework to share jaw-dropping examples of nature's brutality. From slothful worms that can hide in your body for decades to wrathful snails armed with lethal harpoons, and lustful ducks that experience orgasms in the blink of an eye, these accounts reveal the true colors of “gentle” Mother Nature. Riskin's enthusiasm and expertise bring Earth's most intriguing creatures into sharp focus. His adventures—such as sliding through bat guano to meet a vampire bat, befriending a parasitic maggot in his head, and confronting fatherhood—lead to unexpected insights about the world around us and the responsibilities we bear toward this complex, beautiful planet we inhabit.