Nature's Nether Regions: What the Sex Lives of Bugs, Birds, and Beasts Tell Us About Evolution, Biodiversity, and Ourselves

If you are a biologist, you will love this book. Even though I am a biologist there were many, many things I learned from this book that I had never known before, or had forgotten. So little of the fascinating sex lives of animals makes into textbooks. If you are not a biologist, but just enjoy learning new and strange things, you will also like this book. Herein you will learn about spermatophores (basically sperm bombs), the longest penises in the animal world relative to body size (the barnacle holds the record with certain slug species not far behind) and species in which the male uses a hypodermic penis to literally inject sperm into the female's body (bed bugs being a prime example). Although parts of this book may make you blush, show more you will not be disappointed. show less

Funny & informative. Everything you wanted to know about necrophiliac homosexual bird but we're afraid to ask

Lots of crazy stuff on this planet, folks.
I will never eat a squid again.
Now I know why spiders are usually in a hurry during a certain time of year.
My only complaint is that it would have been nice to have some color plates added to this book.

I talked to others about what I learned and laughed while listening to the content. It could have been really boring. It wasn't.