Slip-sliming away -- Concealed weapons -- Toxic bubbles -- Master blasters -- Knockout punch -- Here's blood in your eye -- Of bullies and bait -- Meet my bodyguards.
Summary
Readers are introduced to living things with some of the strangest defenses known to science: termites that blow themselves up to save the colony; fish that produce copious amounts of gooey, slippery slime; lizards that run on water; and other animals that defend themselves in peculiar ways.