La bocca dell'inferno
- 377pagine
- 14 ore di lettura
Bill Schutt esplora gli aspetti affascinanti e spesso trascurati del mondo naturale. Ex professore di biologia e ricercatore museale, porta nella sua scrittura una profonda competenza scientifica. Le sue opere approfondiscono argomenti non convenzionali, dal cannibalismo nel regno animale alla storia naturale del cuore. Schutt ha il dono di rendere accessibili concetti scientifici complessi a un vasto pubblico attraverso una narrazione avvincente.





A witty and informative look inside the world of animals that feed on blood examines the ecological roles and life cycles of the vampire bat, leeches, ticks, mites, bedbugs, and a feared vampire fish known as the candiru.
Cannibalism. It's the last, greatest taboo: the stuff of urban legends and ancient myths, airline crashes and Captain Cook. But while we might get a thrill at the thought of the black widow spider's gruesome mating habits or the tragic fate of the 19th-century Donner Party pioneers, today cannibalism belongs to history - or, at the very least, the realm of the weird, the rare and the very far away. Doesn't it? Here, zoologist Bill Schutt digs his teeth into the subject to find an answer that is as surprising as it is unsettling