Will We Ever Speak Dolphin? And 130 Other Science Questions Answered

About this book

The latest title in the bestselling Last Word series.

Why do birds sing at dawn? What's the slowest a plane can fly without stalling and falling out of the sky? And how long can you keep a tiger cub as a pet? Will We Ever Speak Dolphin? The eagerly-awaited new Last Word collection, has the answers to these questions and many more. Seven years on from Does Anything Eat Wasps?, the New Scientist series still rides high in the bestseller lists, with well over two million copies sold. Popular science has never been more stimulating or more enjoyable.

Like Why Don't Penguins Feet Freeze?, Do Polar Bears Get Lonely?, and Why Can't Elephants Jump? this collection of wry and well-informed answers to a remarkable range of baffling questions is guaranteed to delight.

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Biography

Avidly read for over fifty years, New Scientist is the bestselling and fastest growing science magazine in the world. Will We Ever Speak Dolphin? is again compiled an edited by Mick O'Hare, production editor of New Scientist, who is frequently interviewed on TV and radio.