Author: Emily Farranto Publisher: Abrams ISBN: 1641703253 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 26
Book Description
"Where do babies come from?" It's a question every child asks eventually, and Animals Mate is the simple, straightforward, and developmentally appropriate guide every parent needs to normalize sexual reproduction via adorable animal partners. With a modern design and beautiful illustrations, Animals Mate introduces facts about mating, including tactful discussion of the mechanics of the process, anatomy, and sperm and eggs. Bypass the awkwardness that often accompanies "the talk" about how babies are made and help your child understand sex and reproduction as the natural and wonderful process that results in the world's greatest treasure: babies!
Author: Ann Downer Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books ISBN: 1512411434 Category : Young Adult Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 108
Book Description
Birds do it, bees do it, penguins do it, and orangutans do it. By having sex and giving birth to offspring, animals ensure that their species will survive into the next generation. And in this quest for survival, animals go to great lengths. Some animal mating techniques may strike you as strange or gross, but to the animals themselves, these practices are essential. Animals with the best strategies for choosing mates and making babies ensure that their species live on. Without animal sex, there would be no animal life.
Author: Cassidy St. James Publisher: Carson-Dellosa Publishing ISBN: 1627178759 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 24
Book Description
In Finding a Mate: Animal Companions, students will learn how different animals search for a partner. Young readers will love turning the page as they gain valuable information and are prompted to answer questions along the way. Take a fantastic photo journey into the wild with Rourke’s Close-Up on Amazing Animals for readers in grades K–3. Readers will explore the unique adaptations and relationships that help animals survive in the wild. Repetitive text aids comprehension while real photographs assist in vocabulary development for beginning readers.
Author: Daniel Mueller Publisher: ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 200
Book Description
An anthology of stories featuring oddballs. In Torturing Creatures at Night, a teenager with a remote-control device plays tricks on people by going near their homes and changing their TV channels, Birds is on a struggling poet who works as a stripper, and in Zero the cost of treating an aids victim is so high, his lover becomes bankrupt.
Author: Jennifer L. Verdolin Publisher: Prometheus Books ISBN: 1616149477 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 304
Book Description
Wild Kingdom meets Sex and the City in this scientific perspective on dating and relationships. A specialist in animal behavior compares the courtship rituals and mating behaviors of animals to their human equivalents, revealing the many and often surprising ways we are both similar to and different from other species. What makes an individual attractive to the opposite sex? Does size matter? Why do we tend to "keep score" in our relationships? From perfume and cosmetics to online dating and therapy, our ultimate goal is to successfully connect with someone. So why is romance such an effort for humans, while animals have little trouble getting it right? Wild Connection is full of fascinating and suggestive observations about animal behavior. For example, in most species smell is an important component of determining compatibility. So are we humans doing the right thing by masking our natural scents with soaps and colognes? Royal albatrosses have a lengthy courtship period lasting several years. These birds instinctively know that casual hook-ups are not the way to find a reliable mate. And older female chimpanzees often mate with younger males. Is this the evolutionary basis of the human "cougar" phenomenon? Fun to read as well as educational, this unique take on the perennial human quest to find the ideal mate shows that we have much to learn from our cousins in the wild.
Author: Larry Feign Publisher: Stvdio Media ISBN: 9789627866176 Category : Languages : en Pages : 114
Book Description
The bedroom secrets of the animal kingdom...revealed Amazing and hilarious facts about the intimate habits of our gilled, winged, furry and slimy cousins in the animal kingdom. Did you know...? Penguins do it at 70 below zero Minks do it for 8 hours non-stop Octopuses lose an arm when they mate A giraffe's neck isn't the only thing that's extra-long Ever wondered how starfish do it? How do porcupines mate without causing serious bodily injury? Why do kitty-cats screech when they're having fun?Easy to find out Read (well, first buy) this fascinating, true but funny illustrated book.Click the "Look Inside" link above to read the first chapter free Warning: Do not try these actions at home. Remember, the animals performing them are professionals
Author: Janet Leonard Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 019988675X Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 923
Book Description
Primary sexual traits, those structures and processes directly involved in reproduction, are some of the most diverse, specialized, and bizarre in the animal kingdom. Moreover, reproductive traits are often species-specific, suggesting that they evolved very rapidly. This diversity, long the province of taxonomists, has recently attracted broader interest from evolutionary biologists, especially those interested in sexual selection and the evolution of reproductive strategies. Primary sexual characters were long assumed to be the product of natural selection, exclusively. A recent alternative suggests that sexual selection explains much of the diversity of “primary” sexual characters. A third approach to the evolution of reproductive interactions after copulation or insemination has been to consider the process one of sexual conflict. That is, the reproductive processes of a species may reflect, as does the mating system, evolution acting on males and on females, but in different directions. In this volume, authors explore a wide variety of primary sexual characters and selective pressures that have shaped them, from natural selection for offspring survival to species-isolating mechanisms, sperm competition, cryptic female choice and sexual arms races. Exploring diverse reproductive adaptations from a theoretical and practical perspective, The Evolution of Primary Sexual Characters will provide an unparalleled overview of sexual diversity in many taxa and an introduction to the issues in sexual selection that are changing our view of sexual processes.
Author: Kimberley Jane Pryor Publisher: ISBN: 9781420271614 Category : Courtship in animals Languages : en Pages : 32
Book Description
The fascinating examples of how a range of animals behave when attracting a mate will entertain middle-upper primary students.It presents contrasting examples of animal mating and the approach encourages young readers to develop an understanding about the similarities and differences in the behaviours and features of a range of animals. Features include: fact files did you know? factoids photos and diagrams.
Author: Paul Patrick Gordon Bateson Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521272070 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 484
Book Description
Twenty-one specially-commissioned articles provide a clear picture of the current state of thinking about mate choice. Brings together modern thinking on the various functions of mate choice and its role in evolution.
Author: Emily Farranto
Author: Ann Downer
Author: Cassidy St. James
Author: Daniel Mueller
Author: Jennifer L. Verdolin
Author: Larry Feign
Author: Janet Leonard
Author: Kimberley Jane Pryor
Author: Stefan Schaal
Author: Paul Patrick Gordon Bateson