Sensuous seas : tales of a marine biologist / Eugene H. Kaplan ; drawings by Sandy Chichester Rivkin and Susan L. Kaplan

Author: Kaplan, Eugene H. (Eugene Herbert), 1932-
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2006]
Copyright Date: ©2006
Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 271 pages) : illustrations

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Contents

The perils of teaching -- Deadly darts -- The great jade green octopus hunt -- Bedtime stories -- Garden of Eden : the death apple and the tree of life -- A true romance story -- Elixir of love -- Skinny South Sea sausages -- The only male reproductive organ with a name -- Living lance -- Role reversal -- Super male -- Miracle fish -- Fugu -- Bunnies of the sea -- Passion for purple -- Size does count -- Fiddler on the root -- Beware the duppy -- The secret of an improved sex life -- How to court a female -- The anti-BLB club -- Sea pussy -- Debunking the big lie -- A peek into the anus of a sea cucumber -- The yellow submarine -- The perils of vanity -- Sexually repressed Victorian taxonomists -- Random ramblings on relationships -- Penile bloodletting -- Death and confusion -- Eyeball to eyeball.

Summary

Learning marine biology from a textbook is one thing. But take readers to the bottom of the sea in a submarine to discover living fossils or to coral reefs to observe a day in the life of an octopus, and the sea and its splendors come into focus, in brilliant colors and with immediacy. In Sensuous Seas, Eugene Kaplan offers readers an irresistibly irreverent voyage to the world of sea creatures, with a look at their habitats, their beauty and, yes, even their sex lives. A marine biologist who has built fish farms in Africa and established a marine laboratory in Jamaica, Kaplan takes us to ocea.

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Anecdotes

ISBN

9781400835645 (electronic bk.)
140083564X (electronic bk.)
0691125600 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780691125602 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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