Poking the squid what we can learn from animal sex
"The secret sex lives of animals are not so secret anymore, thanks to this brilliant, punchy illustrated guide to how the other 99. 99% get it on. In delightful watercolor comics of pregnant seahorse dads, spider oral sex, and the four-headed echidna penis, Perrin Roosevelt Ireland takes us on a wil...
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New York :
W.W. Norton and Company,
[2026]
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| 250 | |a First edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b W.W. Norton and Company, |c [2026] | |
| 264 | 4 | |c Ã2026. | |
| 300 | |a 261 pages : |b color illustrations ; |c 24 cm. | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-255) and index. | ||
| 520 | |a "The secret sex lives of animals are not so secret anymore, thanks to this brilliant, punchy illustrated guide to how the other 99. 99% get it on. In delightful watercolor comics of pregnant seahorse dads, spider oral sex, and the four-headed echidna penis, Perrin Roosevelt Ireland takes us on a wild biodiversity ride through queerness, infidelity, consent, divorce, sex change, and even sexual cannibalism in the animal world. Poking the Squid illustrates the splendid diversity of nature's eroticism. For too long, science has prudishly obscured the wildly creative kinkiness of animal sexual behavior. But Poking the Squid celebrates how assumptions about sex are shifting. Ireland interviews researchers probing the leading edge of animal reproductive biology and, with the help of her cats Ursula and Pudge, brings readers along as she learns the latest discoveries that implode traditional notions of sex roles, relationships, and just who is mounting whom. These researchers are making dolphin vaginal popsicles, retrieving sperm packets from male squid mouths, and documenting dolphin orgies. From the externalized clitoris of the spotted hyena to mating-by-fusion in anglerfish, Poking the Squid draws on decades of feminist and queer theory to show that sexual diversity is biodiversity, and boisterous boinking is only natural. Ireland reminds us that we humans, from habitat destruction to climate change, impact all of animal life, including their private lives. Yet Earth's sexual ecosystem is filled with joy, resilience, and vitality--a balm to climate grief and a reason to protect all forms of nature's pleasure. And by illuminating and celebrating animal diversity, Poking the Squid invites us to embrace our own"-- Amazon website. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Animal life cycles. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Courtship in animals. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Reproduction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Sexual behavior in animals. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Animal life cycles |v Pictorial works. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Courtship in animals |v Pictorial works. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Reproduction |v Pictorial works. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Sexual behavior in animals |v Pictorial works. | |
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| 655 | 7 | |a Educational comics. |2 lcgft | |
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