The natural world is filled with diverse - not to mention quirky
and odd - animal behaviors. Consider the male praying mantis that
continues to mate after being beheaded; the spiders, insects, and
birds that offer gifts of food in return for sex; the male
hip-pocket frog that carries his own tadpoles; the baby spiders
that dine on their mother; the beetle that craves excrement; or the
starfish that sheds an arm or two to escape a predator's graps.
"Headless Males Make Great Lovers and Other Unusual Natural
Histories" celebrates this extraordinary world of animals with
essays on curious creatures and their amazing behaviors. Marty
Crump - a tropical field biologist well known for her work with the
reproductive behavior of amphibians - examines here the bizarre
conduct of animals as they mate, parent, feed, defend themselves,
and communicate. Crump's enthusiasm for the unusual behaviors she
describes - from sex change and free love in sponges to aphrodisiac
concoction in bats - is visible on every page, thanks to her
skilled storytelling. Steeped in biology, "Headless Males Make
Great Lovers" points out that diverse and unrelated animals often
share seemingly bizarre behaviors - evidence, Crump argues, that
these natural histories, though outwardly weird, are successful
ways of living. Illustrated throughout, "Headless Males Make Great
Lovers" will enchant the general reader with its tales of
blood-squirting horned lizards and intestine-ejecting sea cucumbers
- all in the service of a greater appreciation of the diversity of
the natural histories of animals.
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