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    Uncle John's Facts to Go Call of the Wild
    Uncle John's Facts to Go Call of the Wild
    Uncle John's Facts to Go Call of the Wild
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    Uncle John's Facts to Go Call of the Wild

    By Bathroom Readers' Institute

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    The outdoors roars to life in this ferocious new e-book from Uncle John!

    Lions and tigers and bears, oh my! And plenty of other wild beasts (including wildebeests)! Whether you find it under a rock, in the sea, or up in the sky, if it has fangs, venom, horns, or an electric tail that really stings, you’ll be much safer reading about it from the confines of this entertaining e-book. So let Uncle John be your safari guide as you sink your canines into…

     

    • Australia’s deadliest…roos
    • What happens when a ten-ton whale leaps onto a 40-foot sailboat

    • Uncle John's Stall of Fame: Wild Edition
    • The gruesome fish that eats other fish…from the inside out

    • Behind the scenes: real animals that inspired books, music, and movies
    • The war between invasive and native species

    • How fire ants saved the life of a fallen skydiver
    • Which wild animal sayings are all wrong...and why 
    • How fire ants saved the life of a fallen skydiver

     …And much, much more!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPortable Press
    Release dateOct 15, 2014
    ISBN9781626862432
    Uncle John's Facts to Go Call of the Wild
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    Bathroom Readers' Institute

    The Bathroom Readers' Institute is a tight-knit group of loyal and skilled writers, researchers, and editors who have been working as a team for years. The BRI understands the habits of a very special market—Throne Sitters—and devotes itself to providing amazing facts and conversation pieces.

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      Uncle John's Facts to Go Call of the Wild - Bathroom Readers' Institute

      NATURE’S SINGLES BAR

      This e-book begins the way many great creations do—with mating rituals. Check out the animal kingdom’s weirdest.

      DOO-DOO YOU LOVE ME?

      The male hippo uses an odd form of foreplay to make him irresistible to the opposite sex. When the mood strikes, he urinates and defecates simultaneously. Then he uses his tail to stir up the mess and throw it about. Once he’s caught a female’s attention, the pair proceeds to mate in water (where, presumably, they will wash off).

      EXPLOSIVE LOVE

      Mating is dangerous work for the male honeybee—when he’s done, he literally explodes. His body separates from his genitals, which remain inside the female, preventing her from mating with any other male.

      JUST CALL HIM MOMMY

      Sea horses have reversed gender roles: the male sea horse gets pregnant and nurtures the unborn young. A female uses an organ called an ovipositor to deliver her eggs into a male’s body and impregnate him. Even better, sea horses mate for life and never cheat.

      CARDINAL SINS

      Male Japanese cardinal fish nurture their immature young by incubating them in their mouths. But if a male encounters a female who is more desirable than his offspring’s mother, the male fish quickly eats up all the babies and tries to woo the newcomer.

      GET TO THE POINT

      When a female porcupine is fertile, a male will follow her around, singing in a whiny voice, fighting off other males, and sniffing wherever she urinates. (The urine acts as an aphrodisiac.) Finally, he stands on his back legs and becomes what experts describe as a urine cannon. He hoses down the female from head to toe with a stream of urine that can shoot up to seven feet. The female either attacks him, or she lifts her tail and allows him to gingerly approach and mate with her.

      CHOMPTO-PUS

      If an amorous male octopus approaches a female octopus who is not in the mood, she simply bites off his sex organ (fortunately, the male has seven others).

      Baby wildebeests can run just minutes after they’re born.

      UNCLE JOHN’S STALL OF

      FAME

      We created the Stall of Fame to honor people who find creative ways to get involved with bathrooms, toilets, etc. Now this special in-stall-ment celebrates animals who go to the bathroom—and the people who let them in.

      Honoree: A pet dog living in the village of Mundhaghar, India

      Notable Achievement: Surviving a night locked in a bathroom with a leopard…without suffering a scratch

      True Story: Think finding a spider in your bathroom is bad? One morning some villagers in Mundhaghar heard a leopard growling in theirs. Somehow it had gotten in during the night. They called the police, who opened the door and were stunned to see the family’s dog in there, too. By some miracle, the leopard hadn’t harmed the dog, even as they spent the night together in the small room, a police inspector told reporters. The leopard now lives in a zoo; at last report the dog was healthy but still terrified.

      Honoree: Shannon Scavotto of St. Petersburg, Florida

      Notable Achievement: Giving new meaning to drain snake

      True Story: In February 2005, Scavotto was getting ready for work when he lifted the lid of his toilet to discard a tissue…and a snake stuck its head out of the bowl. Scavotto quickly called local animal control. When they told him it would cost $150 to have the snake removed, he decided to make his own snake-catching device out of PVC pipe and string. Scavotto lassoed the snake around its head and started pulling…and pulling…and pulling… It was one of those five levels of realization, he told the St. Petersburg Times. How big is this snake? It turned out to be a six-foot African python. Scavotto has no idea how it got there, but it has given him a new worry in life: Makes me wonder now when I go to the restroom. (Us, too.)

      Honoree: Koko, the gorilla that knows American Sign Language (more about her later in this e-book, in Koko Kares for Kitten)

      Notable Achievement: Being the first member of the ape family to master potty talk

      True Story: In the late 1990s, Koko participated in a live Internet chat on America Online. According to one account, When asked about her boyfriend, Koko replied, ‘toilet.’

      Honorees: Philip Middleton and Richard Wooton of Chantilly, Virginia

      Notable Achievement: Creating the first automated, self-cleaning commode for dogs

      True Story: According to a 1993 news report, it’s called the Walk-Me-Not. The dog walks up a set of stairs at the side of the bathroom toilet, steps onto a platform over the toilet bowl, and does its business. A sensor detects when it steps down, triggering an automatic flush and a self-cleaning mechanism. The device won first prize at an invention exposition but, judging by the poop in parks and yards across the country, didn’t catch on with the public.

      Honoree: Emil, a parrot in Sweden

      Notable Achievement: Using the potty like a big bird

      True Story: I noticed that every time I took Emil out of his cage, he had to do a poo, said Emil’s owner, Yasmin Mughal. One problem: The parrot kept doing it on the furniture. So I placed him on the toilet and told him to make a poo, which he actually did! Now Emil knows that if he wants to get out of his cage and play, he must first make a beeline to the bathroom. (No word on whether Mughal taught the bird to flush.)

      Honoree: A cow in Gujarat, India

      Notable Achievement: Creating the world’s most valuable cow manure

      True Story: The state of Gujarat

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