The Quirks and Quarks Guide to Animal Sex and Other Weird Behaviour: Nasty, Brutish, and Short

Introduction  1. The Battle of the Sexes THE INSECTSInsect Arms Race Weevil Penises The Power of One Bedbug Penis Tasting Fishing Spider Sex Redback Spider Sex Some Crickets Like it Rough  THE OTHERS Genitalia Most Fowl Cannibal Fish Infertile Monkeys Meerkat Infanticide Hyena Hormones Speedy Sperm  2. Impressing the Other Sex BIRDS DO ITZebra Finch IQ Bowerbird Bullies Bowerbirds Come on Strong Godwit Vacations Auklets and Aphrodisiacs The Sound of Two Wings Clapping  BEES (AND OTHER INSECTS) DO ITHot Insect Sex Quiet Crickets Sniffing for Sexual Satisfaction Weta Walking Cricket Coupling Brotherly Love Among Crayfish Bisexual Beetles Cockroach Wars Water from Weevils’ Sperm Lying Flies  EVEN ANIMALS, LAND AND SEA, DO ITPrimate Copulation Call Salacious Simians Bat Brains and Balls Amorous Antelope Antics Sea Slug Orgy The Barnacle’s Penis Penis Preference in Mosquitofish Amazon Mollies Dolphin Bling Cichlid Dominance  3. Parenting Skills RAISING THE CHICKSCowbirds’ Bad Influence There Goes the Neighbourhood Birds that Time-share Two-Mom Albatross Families  BRINGING UP A BROODSelf-Roasting Rodents Father’s Nose Best Pregnancy and Monkey Dads Stinking Baby Bugs Cannibal Tadpoles  4. Lunch, Anyone? FINDING FOODOwl Dung Nests Snails and their Slime How a Bat Holds its Licker Its Bite is Worse than its Bite Whales Lunge for Lunch Killer Whale Sonar Sea Lion Diving Dolphin Herders Guano-Eating Salamanders The Hummingbird’s Stopwatch  HOW TO AVOID BECOMING A MEALWolverine Frogs Bombardier Beetles Toadfish Pee Squirrels Eating Snake Skin Ultrasonic Gophers Crafty Chameleon Camouflage  5. Parsing Parasite Peculiarities Blister Beetle Deception Ants Look Berry Nice Crustacean Kids, Parasitic Parents Woolly Caterpillar Medicine  6. Higher, Faster, Stronger The Fastest Jaw in the South Preying Mantis Shrimp The Mantis Shrimp’s Super-Sight Mandible Mayhem How the Bow Bug Shoots Itself Catapulting Caterpillar Feces  7. Even More Weird Behaviour Washing with Urine Spider Venom Side Effect Termite Head-Bangers Army Ants Lie Down on the Job Loony Tunes Electric Fish Chimp Plans for Pitching Crocodiles Go Home Alligator Air Bags Bird Doping Scuba Bug Head-Under-Heels Bees’ Knees Clownfish Sex Worm Hibernation Four-Eyed Fish Cold, Dry Bugs Tonguefish at the Vents  8. The Games Researchers Play Spitting Cobras Worm Grunting Flatulent Fish Fearless Iguanas Running on Water Wasp Faces: Friend or Foe Fruit Fly Fight Club Tadpole Bail Out Flying Ants