Love-Life of Animals

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207 pp. Black & white photographs & illustrations. CONTENTS: Foreword; Introduction; MEETING AND MATING: The Fertilization of the Ovum; Biology of Sex in Protozoa; The Metazoa; The Difference between the Sexes (Sexual Dimorphism); Attraction of the Opposite Sex; Sex Recognition; Coming into Breeding Condition; Sexual Fights of Animals; The Union; Marital Cohabitation; Breeding in Hermaphrodites; THE CARE OF THE YOUNG: Egg-Laying; Nomadic Animals; Protection of the Eggs by the Parents; The Nest; Egg Clutches of Birds; Incubation; Insessors and Autophagous Birds; Giant Snake and Duckbill; Feeding the Young. Show more