Fish That Fake Orgasms: And Other Zoological Curiosities“If you are interested in transvestite garter snakes, the speed-eating habits of the star-nosed mole, or how geckos behave in zero gravity, you will enjoy Fish That Fake Orgasms.” ---The Times (UK) • Why do some Japanese quail prefer to mate with weaker males of the species? • What animal has a heart that glows green when it beats? • Of all the carnivores, which has the strongest bite? • What creature performs better sexually when there’s another male nearby? • What type of bird has a divorce rate of only 8 percent? • Which has a bigger brain: a lion in the wild or a lion in captivity? • What animal pretends it has food in order to lure females into its abode? Fish That Fake Orgasms is the first professionally researched miscellany of the animal kingdom. An entertaining and addictive collection, it will satisfy anyone entranced by the wondrous world of animals. And speaking of satisfaction, the female brown trout does, in fact, fake it. It’s a trick it uses to find the most potent mate! |
Contents
The mating game | 11 |
Unhealthy living | 18 |
Drink and drugs | 23 |
Talented creatures | 27 |
Talking | 32 |
and listening | 37 |
Eating | 39 |
and excreting | 48 |
In the blood | 136 |
Smelly world | 139 |
Zoological definitions | 142 |
The power of the goat | 144 |
Ripe for mummification | 145 |
Laugh and play | 146 |
Amazing fakes | 148 |
Mistaken identity | 151 |
Species that regularly eat their own faeces | 50 |
Breathe easy | 51 |
Under pressure | 52 |
Good vibrations | 56 |
Questions questions questions | 58 |
Enduring enigmas | 66 |
Mysterious giants | 69 |
Man and beast dont get along | 74 |
Differences | 81 |
When animals attack | 82 |
Nature red in tooth and claw | 88 |
Biomechanical wonders | 101 |
Super organs | 113 |
Energy efficient | 118 |
Do the locomotion | 125 |
Left or right | 134 |
Telling lookalikes apart | 157 |
Alliterative collective nouns | 159 |
Whats in a name? | 160 |
More than one name to call a cat | 161 |
That time of life | 162 |
Origin of the species | 174 |
Colours of the rainbow | 178 |
Home is where the heart is | 181 |
Weird identity | 185 |
The rarest of the rare | 189 |
Death becomes them | 192 |
or not | 195 |
Resurrection | 197 |
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