A funny and fact-filled look at decomposition in all of its slimy glory, illustrated with dazzling full-color art by Gilbert Ford. Vultures, fungi, dung beetles, and more aid in this fascinating and sometimes smelly aspect of the life cycle that\u2019s right under our noses.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s that terrible smell? It\u2019s the revolting scent of rot. But being rotten isn\u2019t necessarily bad. If nothing ever rotted, nothing new could live.<\/p>\n
Decomposition may seem like the last stop on the food chain, but it\u2019s just the beginning. When dead plants and animals decay, they give life to a host of other creatures, and each one helps ecosystems thrive.<\/p>\n
Decomposition happens in the forest, the ocean \u2013 even in your stomach and between your teeth! From vultures and sharks to bacteria, maggots, mushrooms, and more, discover the dirty rotten truth about one of nature\u2019s most fascinating processes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":395033,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[6476,3729,2535,6939],"featured":[],"topic_themes":[485,521,469,486],"teacher_resources__pdf":[],"age_group":[453,454,519,871],"australian_curriculum_learning_a":[4443,4449],"text_type":[418],"by_author":[7130,5030,6941],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachershub.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/267169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachershub.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachershub.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/books"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachershub.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/267169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276656,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachershub.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/267169\/revisions\/276656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachershub.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachershub.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachershub.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachershub.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267169"},{"taxonomy":"featured","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachershub.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured?post=267169"},{"taxonomy":"topic_themes","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachershub.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic_themes?post=267169"},{"taxonomy":"teacher_resources__pdf","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachershub.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/teacher_resources__pdf?post=267169"},{"taxonomy":"age_group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachershub.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/age_group?post=267169"},{"taxonomy":"australian_curriculum_learning_a","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachershub.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/australian_curriculum_learning_a?post=267169"},{"taxonomy":"text_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachershub.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/text_type?post=267169"},{"taxonomy":"by_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachershub.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/by_author?post=267169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}