Mary Batten

How To Have Sex If You're Not Human (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Despite all our love songs and romantic fantasies, reproduction is the name of the game in biology. All forms of life are genetically programmed to reproduce. Nothing is off limits so long as it produces babies. Animalsplants, too"do it" in wild, bizarre ways. With both a vagina and a penis, hermaphroditic snails form orgiastic daisy chains. In the ultimate form of togetherness, walking sticks (insects, not skinny people) stay locked in copulo up to 79 days! Some reef fishes change sexmale to female or vice versa, depending on whether their social structure is headed by a dominant male or a dominant female. Pygmy chimpanzees called bonobos use sex to greet each other: male-male, female-female, male-female, young oldnothing is off limits to these animals with whom we share 96 percent of our DNA. Among bonobos, sex helps to keep the peace. Plants also have sexual lives but for them, three is not a crowd; it's a necessity. Plants trick and seduce a variety of animals to do their sexual bidding by carrying the plant's spermthe pollento fertilize the female part of another blossom. Avocados and orchids, no less than mammals and insects, strive to reproduce.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mary Batten
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781466027121
• Artikelnr.: 48333890

Autorenporträt

Mary Batten is an award-winning writer for television, film and publishing. Her many writing projects have taken her into tropical rainforests, astronomical observatories, scientific laboratories, and medical research centers. She is the author of Life in Hot Water: Wildlife at the Bottom of the Ocean (Peachtree 2022); Life in a Frozen World: Wildlife of Antarctica (Peachtree, 2020); Spit: What's Cool about Drool (Firefly Books, 2019); Baby Orca (Grosset & Dunlap/Penguin, 2016); Rattler (Grosset & Dunlap/Penguin, 2016); Aliens From Earth: When Animals and Plants Invade Other Ecosystems, updated edition, (Peachtree, 2016), Izaak Walton League of America Conservation Book of the Year Award Adopted by New York City Public Schools in support of science requirement for study of ecosystems; Baby Wolf (Penguin Young Readers 2015); Please Don't Wake the Animals: A Book About Sleep (Peachtree 2008); Who Has a Belly Button? (Peachtree 2004); Hey, Daddy! Animal Fathers and Their Babies Named Outstanding Science Read Aloud 2003 by the National Association for the Advancement of Science (Peachtree 2002); Wild Cats (Penguin/Random House 2002); Anthropologist: Scientist of the People -- Named Outstanding Science Trade Book for Children by the National Science Teachers Association and the Children's Book Council (Houghton Mifflin 2001). Other books include: Hungry Plants (Penguin/Random House, 2000); The Winking, Blinking Sea -- Named one of the Best Children's Books for 2001 (Millbrook Press, 2000); Baby Wolf (Grosset and Dunlap, 1998); Sexual Strategies: How Females Choose Their Mates, (Tarcher/Putnam, 1994); Nature's Tricksters (Sierra Club Books/Little Brown, 1992), Discovery By Chance (Funk and Wagnalls) and The Tropical Forest: Ants, Ants, Animals and Plants (T.Y. Crowell). She has appeared on OPRAH and various other television shows. Her magazine articles are published in a variety of publications, including Cosmopolitan, Ladies Home Journal, Modern Maturity, Shape, International Wildlife, National Geographic World, ZooNooz, and Science Digest, Mary Batten was nominated for an Emmy for her work on the Children's Television Workshop's science series 3-2-1-CONTACT, and she has written some 50 nature documentaries for television series, including the syndicated WILD WILD WORLD OF ANIMALS (Time-Life Films) and others for National Geographic and Disney Educational Films. Her magazine article for Science Digest, Sex...