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Special Issue: Small Animals
— 4 bonus pages! —
Mice Yo-Yo Spaghetti Events
Cockroach Head-On Collisions
Pseudoscorpions Hitchhiking on Bats…
The features marked with a star (*) are based entirely on material taken straight from standard research (and other Official and Therefore Always Correct) literature. Many of the other articles are genuine, too, but we don’t know which ones.
Contents
Special Section: Small Animals
Swimming Behaviour of the Dropped Upside-Down Swimming Catfish*
Small Animals Research: Pseudoscorpions Hitchhiking on Bats*
Mice: Yo-Yo Spaghetti into the Mouth*
Millipedes: How Many Legs?*
Ants: On Stilts, Bunkered*
Worms Research: Vibrating, Viscoelastic, Grunting*
Some Students Say: Earthworm Emotions?*
May We Recommend: Dogs Vs. Cats in Bed*
Medical: Deadly Dead Snakes? Swim Pool Head Lice?*
Bedbugs: Dirty Laundry*
Cockroaches: Head-On-Collisions*
Beetles: Necrophilia, Bouncing Back*
Lizards: Big Poop Rock, Un-Snakey Flicking*
Improbable Research Reviews
News & Notes
AIR Vents (letters from our readers): High Adventure for Fish
Ig® and Beyond: Depilation and Drowning*
Ig Nobel Limericks: Ugly Paintings, Prostitution and Drugs*
Teachers’Guide
Editorial Board
Index of Special Issues
Unclassified Ads
On the Front Cover
Small animals and small animal cookies. Montage by Nan Swift.
On the Back Cover
Old children’s books in which the main characters are small animals.