Crump Marty Crump

Ain't Love Grand! (eBook, ePUB)

Earthworms to Elephant Seals
Illustrator: Alan Crump, Crump

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 insects, 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; or the starfish that sheds an arm or two to escape a predator''s grasp. In Ain't Love Grand, 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. More importantly, Crump points out that diverse and unrelated animals often share seemingly erratic behaviors-evidence, Crump argues, that these natural histories, though outwardly weird, are actually successful ways of living.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Seitenzahl: 41
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780226094434
• Artikelnr.: 72474847

Autorenporträt

Marty Crump is currently an adjunct professor of biology at Utah State and Northern Arizona Universities. She has been a herpetologist for more than forty-five years, working with tropical amphibians in the areas of parental care, reproduction, territoriality, cannibalism, and tadpole ecology. Her work hasdrawn attention to theissue ofdeclining amphibian populations. In addition to her popular science writing, she is the author of the recent award-winning children's book, The Mystery of Darwin's Frog. She lives in Logan, UT.