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Strange Mates

Written by George Lewis, published by Ammonite.

Product details Hardcover: 128 pages Publisher: Ammonite (7 Aug 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 1907708391 ISBN-13: 978-1907708398

The weird side of the birds and the bees is explored and described by George Lewis. For instance, whiptail lizards don't need a male for breeding, which is lucky as there aren't any. Instead another females imitates copulation (dry humping, so beloved of many dogs) and this stimulates the humped into reproduction when she will produce eggs that contain almost exact replicas of herself.

And barnacles. How does something that spends its life clamped to a rock reproduce? Easy, it has an ‘appendage' up to 50 times longer than he is himself. Ample to reach some neighbours without even moving.

There are 50 such examples in this book - Ideal loo reading material as well as being educational, and, in 1-2 cases, inspirational.