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SUPER FLY - JONATHAN BALCOMBE KARTONIERT (TB)

Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History and a New York Times Editors
Choice PickAfter reading Super Fly  you will never take a fly for granted again. Thank you 
Jonathan Balcombe  for reminding us of the infinite marvels of everyday creatures. Sy
Montgomery  Author of How to Be a Good Creature From an expert in animal consciousness  a book
that will turn the fly on the wall into the elephant in the room. For most of us  the only
thing we know about flies is that they're annoying  and our usual reaction is to try to kill
them. In Super Fly  the myth-busting biologist Jonathan Balcombe shows the order Diptera in all
of its diversity  illustrating the essential role that flies play in every ecosystem in the
world as pollinators  waste-disposers  predators  and food source  and how flies continue to
reshape our understanding of evolution. Along the way  he reintroduces us to familiar foes like
the fruit fly and mosquito  and gives us the chance to meet their lesser-known cousins like the
Petroleum Fly (the only animal in the world that breeds in crude oil) and the Chocolate Midge
(the sole pollinator of the Cacao tree). No matter your outlook on our tiny buzzing neighbors 
Super Fly will change the way you look at flies forever. Jonathan Balcombe is the author of
four books on animal sentience  including the New York Times bestselling What A Fish Knows 
which was nominated for the PEN E.O. Wilson Award for Science Writing. He has worked for years
as a researcher and educator with the Humane society to show us the consciousness of other
creatures  and here he takes us to the farthest reaches of the animal kingdom.

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