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.