Nature is the Worst: 500 Reasons You'll Never Want to Go Outside Again

2017 | Humor & Comedy

500 of the most absurd and horrifying things that happen in nature! Crashing waves, stunning sunsets, sprawling landscapes. Nature is beautiful, right? Wrong. Nature Is the Worst. Need proof?* The giant pitcher plant not only eats bugs, it's large enough to trap small mammals.* Almost 90 percent of the koala population in Australia has chlamydia.* A hailstorm in Bangladesh in 1986 killed 92 people with giant balls of ice weighing more than 2 pounds apiece.* Crocodiles can climb trees.* The poisonous Dracunculus vulgaris, or voodoo lily, smells like rotting flesh, looks like it's splattered in blood, and features a central black spike that can grow up to 4 feet tall.* Cats often kill their first litter.* A "haboob" is a biblically-huge wall of dust that can reduce visibility to zero, reach a height of 5,000 feet and stretch as far as 100 miles wide.* Vampire bats are totally real, and yes, they love blood.Nature Is the Worst contains hundreds of cringe-worthy, shocking facts you never knew about nature that prove the world is a terrifying--and sometimes very strange--place.

E. Reid Ross (Author)