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Spit: What's Cool about Drool

Spit: What's Cool about Drool

Batten, Mary

Hardcover

Science & Nature

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ISBN10: 022810226X
ISBN13: 9780228102267
Publisher: Firefly Books Ltd
Published: Sep 20 2019
Pages: 64
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.50 Width: 8.10 Depth: 10.20
Language: English

The title says it all.

It's yucky. It's gooey It makes your food chewy Ptooey! Ptooey! Oh, spit.

Ew! Nasty! Ew! Gross! But spit is no spitball joke. Drool is cool! It's one of the most amazing fluids in your body.

In Spit, renowned science writer and children's author Mary Batten examines everything that's cool about drool. Spit keeps your mouth moist. It begins digesting food the minute you take a bite. It keeps your teeth from wearing away. It keeps your tongue from choking you to death! But it isn't just humans that rely on spit, anything with a mouth needs saliva to keep functioning. A vampire bat has special saliva that stops its victim's blood from clotting. A spitting spider can trap prey in gooey saliva that it can spit in 1/700th of a second -- that's fast! And, if spitballs are your thing, perhaps try your hand at spitting antelope dung; the record, set in South Africa, is 51 feet!

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