Ebook: Why Can't Elephants Jump?: And 101 Other Questions

Well, why not? Is it because elephants are too large or heavy (after all, they say hippos and rhinos can play hopscotch)? Or is it because their knees face the wrong way? Or do they just wait until no one's looking? Read this brilliant new compilation to find out. This is popular science at its most absorbing and enjoyable. That is why the previous titles in the New Scientist series have been international bestsellers and sold over twomillion copies between them. Like Does Anything Eat Wasps? (2005), Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze? (2006) and Do Polar Bears Get Lonely? (2008), this is another.;Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; 1 Food and drink; 2 Our bodies; 3 Domestic science; 4 Plants and animals; 5 Our planet, our solar system; 6 Weird weather; 7 Troublesome transport; 8 Best of the rest; Index.