Headless males make great lovers
Crump, Martha L.
Headless males make great lovers & other unusual natural histories / [electronic resource] : Marty Crump ; with illustrations by Alan Crump. - University of Chicago Press, c2005. - 1 online resource (x, 199 p.) : ill.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-192) and index.
Ain't Love Grand! -- The Mamas and the Papas -- Eat to Live and Live to Eat -- Don't Tread on Me -- Ya Don't Say!
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 grasp. Headless Males Make Great Lovers and Other Unusual Natural Histories celebrates this extraordinary world of animals with essays on curious creatures and.
9780226122083 (electronic bk.) 0226122085 (electronic bk.)
OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
Uk
Animal behavior.
Behavior, Animal.
Animaux--Mœurs et comportement.
NATURE--Animals--General.
SCIENCE--Life Sciences--Zoology--General.
NATURE--Animals--Wildlife.
Seks.
Voortplanting (biologie)
Diergedrag.
Electronic books.
QL751 / .C8825 2005eb
590
Headless males make great lovers & other unusual natural histories / [electronic resource] : Marty Crump ; with illustrations by Alan Crump. - University of Chicago Press, c2005. - 1 online resource (x, 199 p.) : ill.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-192) and index.
Ain't Love Grand! -- The Mamas and the Papas -- Eat to Live and Live to Eat -- Don't Tread on Me -- Ya Don't Say!
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 grasp. Headless Males Make Great Lovers and Other Unusual Natural Histories celebrates this extraordinary world of animals with essays on curious creatures and.
9780226122083 (electronic bk.) 0226122085 (electronic bk.)
OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
Uk
Animal behavior.
Behavior, Animal.
Animaux--Mœurs et comportement.
NATURE--Animals--General.
SCIENCE--Life Sciences--Zoology--General.
NATURE--Animals--Wildlife.
Seks.
Voortplanting (biologie)
Diergedrag.
Electronic books.
QL751 / .C8825 2005eb
590