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Headless Males Make Great Lovers and Other Unusual Natural Histories

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By: Marty Crump(Author), Alan Crump(Illustrator)
207 pages, 108 line drawings, 1 table
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Great book of essays on curious creatures and their amazing behaviours
Headless Males Make Great Lovers and Other Unusual Natural Histories
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Headless Males Make Great Lovers and Other Unusual Natural Histories celebrates the extraordinary world of animals with essays on curious creatures and their amazing behaviors. In five thematic chapters, Marty Crump-a tropical field biologist well known for her work with the reproductive behavior of amphibians-examines 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 concoctions in bats-is visible on every page, thanks to her skilled storytelling, which makes even sea slugs, dung beetles, ticks, and tapeworms fascinating and appealing. 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, and filled with vignettes of personal and scientific interest, 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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Marty Crump is adjunct professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Northern Arizona University and the author of In Search of the Golden Frog, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Popular Science
By: Marty Crump(Author), Alan Crump(Illustrator)
207 pages, 108 line drawings, 1 table
NHBS
Great book of essays on curious creatures and their amazing behaviours
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"A marvelous introduction to the whys and wherefores of animal behavior."
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"With Crump's thirty-plus years of experience in the field, this beautifully written and charmingly illustrated book combines acute observation with helpful explanation. Nature has never seemed so bizarre and splendid."
– Adrian Barnett, New Scientist

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