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Nasty, brutish and short : the quirks & quarks guide to animal sex and other weird behaviour
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- ISBN: 9780771079689 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0771079680 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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xvi, 274 p. ; 21 cm. - Publisher: Toronto, Ont. : McClelland & Stewart, c2010.
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Nasty, Brutish, and Short : The Quirks and Quarks Guide to Animal Sex and Other Weird Behaviour
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Nasty, Brutish, and Short : The Quirks and Quarks Guide to Animal Sex and Other Weird Behaviour
| Section | Section Description | Page Number |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction | p. xi | |
| 1 | The Battle of the Sexes | p. 1 |
| The Insects | ||
| Insect Arms Race | p. 2 | |
| Weevil Penises | p. 5 | |
| The Power of One | p. 7 | |
| Bedbug Penis Tasting | p. 10 | |
| Fishing Spider Sex | p. 12 | |
| Redback Spider Sex | p. 15 | |
| Some Crickets Like it Rough | p. 19 | |
| The Others | p. 21 | |
| Genitalia Most Fowl | p. 21 | |
| Cannibal Fish | p. 24 | |
| Infertile Monkeys | p. 26 | |
| Meerkat Infanticide | p. 29 | |
| Hyena Hormones | p. 32 | |
| Speedy Sperm | p. 34 | |
| 2 | Impressing the Other Sex | p. 37 |
| Birds do It | ||
| Zebra Finch IQ | p. 38 | |
| Bowerbird Bullies | p. 41 | |
| Bowerbirds Come on Strong | p. 43 | |
| Godwit Vacations | p. 45 | |
| Auklets and Aphrodisiacs | p. 48 | |
| The Sound of Two Wings Clapping | p. 50 | |
| Bees (and other insects) do it | ||
| Hot Insect Sex | p. 53 | |
| Quiet Crickets | p. 56 | |
| Sniffing for Sexual Satisfaction | p. 58 | |
| Weta Walking | p. 60 | |
| Cricket Coupling | p. 63 | |
| Brotherly Love Among Crayfish | p. 66 | |
| Bisexual Beetles | p. 69 | |
| Cockroach Wars | p. 72 | |
| Water from Weevils' Sperm | p. 74 | |
| Lying Flies | p. 76 | |
| Even Animals, Land and Sea, do it | ||
| Primate Copulation Call | p. 79 | |
| Salacious Simians | p. 81 | |
| Bat Brains and Balls | p. 83 | |
| Amorous Antelope Antics | p. 86 | |
| Sea Slug Orgy | p. 88 | |
| The Barnacle's Penis | p. 91 | |
| Penis Preference in Mosquitofish | p. 94 | |
| Amazon Mollies | p. 96 | |
| Dolphin Bling | p. 99 | |
| Cichlid Dominant | p. 101 | |
| 3 | Parenting Skills | p. 105 |
| Raising the Chicks | ||
| Cowbirds' Bad Influence | p. 106 | |
| There Goes the Neighbourhood | p. 109 | |
| Birds that Time-share | p. 112 | |
| Two-Mom Albatross Families | p. 115 | |
| Bringing up a Brood | ||
| Self-Roasting Rodents | p. 118 | |
| Father's Nose Best | p. 121 | |
| Pregnancy and Monkey Dads | p. 123 | |
| Stinking Baby Bugs | p. 126 | |
| Cannibal Tadpoles | p. 128 | |
| 4 | Lunch, Anyone? | p. 131 |
| Finding Food | ||
| Owl Dung Nests | p. 132 | |
| Snails and their Slime | p. 135 | |
| How a Bat Holds its Licker | p. 137 | |
| Its Bite is Worse than its Bite | p. 140 | |
| Whales Lunge for Lunch | p. 141 | |
| Killer Whale Sonar | p. 144 | |
| Sea Lion Diving | p. 146 | |
| Dolphin Herders | p. 150 | |
| Guano-Eating Salamanders | p. 152 | |
| The Hummingbird's Stopwatch | p. 154 | |
| How to Avoid Becoming a Meal | ||
| Wolverine Frogs | p. 157 | |
| Bombardier Beetles | p. 159 | |
| Toadfish Pee | p. 161 | |
| Squirrels Eating Snake Skin | p. 164 | |
| Ultrasonic Gophers | p. 167 | |
| Crafty Chameleon Camouflage | p. 169 | |
| 5 | Parsing Parasite Peculiarities | p. 173 |
| Blister Beetle Deception | p. 174 | |
| Ants Look Berry Nice | p. 176 | |
| Crustacean Kids, Parasitic Parents | p. 179 | |
| Woolly Caterpillar Medicine | p. 181 | |
| 6 | Higher, Faster, Stronger | p. 185 |
| The Fastest Jaw in the South | p. 186 | |
| Preying Mantis Shrimp | p. 189 | |
| The Mantis Shrimp's Super-Sight | p. 192 | |
| Mandible Mayhem | p. 195 | |
| How the Bow Bug Shoots Itself | p. 196 | |
| Catapulting Caterpillar Feces | p. 199 | |
| 7 | Even More Weird Behaviour | p. 203 |
| Washing with Urine | p. 204 | |
| Spider Venom Side Effect | p. 207 | |
| Termite Head-Bangers | p. 209 | |
| Army Ants Lie Down on the Job | p. 211 | |
| Loony Tunes | p. 214 | |
| Electric Fish | p. 216 | |
| Chimp Plans for Pitching | p. 219 | |
| Crocodiles Go Home | p. 222 | |
| Alligator Air Bags | p. 225 | |
| Bird Doping | p. 227 | |
| Scuba Bug | p. 229 | |
| Head-Under-Heels | p. 232 | |
| Bees' Knees | p. 235 | |
| Clownfish Sex | p. 237 | |
| Worm Hibernation | p. 240 | |
| Four-Eyed Fish | p. 242 | |
| Cold, Dry Bugs | p. 245 | |
| Tonguefish at the Vents | p. 248 | |
| 8 | The Games Researchers Play | p. 251 |
| Spitting Cobras | p. 252 | |
| Worm Grunting | p. 255 | |
| Flatulent Fish | p. 258 | |
| Fearless Iguanas | p. 260 | |
| Running on Water | p. 262 | |
| Wasp Faces: Friend or Foe | p. 265 | |
| Fruit Fly Fight Club | p. 267 | |
| Tadpole Bail Out | p. 269 | |
| Flying Ants | p. 272 |
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