Mother Nature Is Trying to Kill You (36 page)

Titanic
shipwreck,
29
–30

toads,
148
,
149
,
150
–51

tobacco plants,
111

Toxoplasma
parasite,
90
–93,
94
,
96

Trachops
bats,
58
n

“tragedy of the commons,”
206
,
206
n

traumatic insemination,
56
–57

tube-lipped nectar bats,
114
–15

tucandeira
ant ritual,
181
,
181
n

vampire bats,
71
–78,
73
n
,
78
n
,
94
,
199
–201,
202
,
207

vegetarianism,
122
,
125
,
139
–40

venom

antivenins for,
173
,
173
n
,
189

benefits of,
189

definition of,
166

humans and,
166
–74,
183
–89

poison compared with,
166

of scorpions,
174
–79

of snakes,
174
,
183
–89

of spiders,
170
–73,
171
n

wrath and,
166
–79,
183
–89

Verreaux eagles,
21
–22

Vietnam: conservation of rare mammals in,
83
–84

volcanoes: extinctions and,
192
–93

Vonhof, Maarten,
71
,
74
–75

wasp emerald cockroach,
87
–88

wasps,
111
,
182
,
189

water

importance of,
100
,
100
n

Jani story and,
99
–100

water buffalo,
31

whales, killer,
159
–64,
162
n
,
164
n
,
165

wild dogs,
140
–41

wolves/wolverines,
17
–18,
119
–20,
165

“women and children first” rule,
28
–30

World Health Organization,
44
n
,
46
n

wrath

extinction and,
190
–97

of nature,
179
,
189
–90

of predators,
159
–66

stings and,
179
–83,
182
n

venom and,
166
–79,
183
–89

zebras,
16
,
20
,
20
n

zonal geranium,
108
–9

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