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Furtive Fauna: A Field Guide to the Creatures Who Live on You Paperback – August 1, 1996

by Roger M. Knutson (Author)

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The author of the popular, offbeat book Flattened Fauna returns with a look at such fascinating fellows as the eyebrow mite and to tooth amoeba, not to mention the dreaded tropical chigoe, which can lay thousands of eggs in places you'd really rather not think about. This fully illustrated book gives a whole new meaning to the term "a perfect host."

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Paperback: 96 pages
Publisher: Ten Speed Press (August 1, 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0898158273
ISBN-13: 978-0898158274
Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.1 x 0.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,254,057 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1322 in Books > Science & Math > Biological Sciences > Animals > Insects & Spiders
- #8831 in Books > Science & Math > Biological Sciences > Zoology
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Capitivate young readers with this one

By A Customer on September 21, 1999

Format: Paperback

Librarians and teachers looking for books for reluctant readers, take note of this title. With facts about fleas, mites and other tiny human-loving insects, this book will fascinate (and gross out) even the most resistant reader. Great for book talks, I've used this title in many school visits leaving everyone scratching furiously and begging for more.

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You Will Never Be Alone.

By A Customer on September 1, 1998

Format: Paperback

Did you know that fleas are highly specie-specific (e.g., the fleas that prefer dogs don't like cats or people)? Did you know that the lice found on the bodies of people are completely different from the lice inhabiting the head or pubic region (a.k.a. crabs)? Do you care?
Well, I do. This is a captivating book about the many little creatures which make us their home. From the little mites that eat dead skin cells to the various flora and fauna which reside in the digestive system, this book covers the lifeforms, good and bad, which have evolved with us just as we have evolved with them. As the old saying goes, we can't live without them and we can't live with them.

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Fun reading

By Karen on December 26, 1999

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My third grade daughter and I found this a fun and informative book. It takes some of the mystery out of the little creatures we live with.

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Our Little Friends

By David Hoffman on July 14, 2013

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A great poet once said that no man is an island. He was more right than he could possibly have known. Each one of us is not an island, but a community, an ecosystem, if you will. Each one of us has a number of creatures who depend on us for a meal, or a place to live. Most people despise these dependants who live off us as disease carrying parasites and seek to get rid of them at any cost. Roger M. Knutson might disagree. Roger Knutson is a biologist who has written Furtive Fauna, a field guide to the creatures that live on us or near us. Knutson asserts that our dependants are more to be pitied, even respected, than hated. After all, the human body is not exactly an easy environment to live in.

In Furtive Fauna, Professor Knutson catalogs the many creatures that live with us. He starts with the occasional visitors, like ticks, flies and mosquitoes who like to drop by for a quick snack. He then moves on to some of our neighbors, bedbugs, fleas, and others who live in our clothes and bedding. These neighbors, like any good neighbor, often visit us, and like good hosts, we provide them with food and shelter. Then, there are our friends and companions; lice and mites, who like to live with us and keep us company. You can never feel lonely as long as you know you have mites living on you. Finally, we have the friends that are too small to see, like bacteria. They are everywhere and we could not live without them.

Roger Knutson's descriptions of the various furtive fauna are brief, humorous, and fun to read. You may never come to love the little beasts that live off you, but after reading Furtive Fauna, you will never think of them in quite the same way.