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 oceans across the world to experience the lives of their inhabitants, from the horribly grotesque to the exquisitely beautiful. In chapters with titles such as "Fiddler on the Root" (reproductive rituals of fiddler crabs) and "Size Does Count" (why barnacles have the largest penis, comparatively, in the animal kingdom), Kaplan ventures inside coral reefs to study mating parrotfish; dives 740 feet in a submarine to find living fossils; explains what results from swallowing a piece of living octopus tentacle; and describes a shark attack on a friend.
The book is a sensuous blend of sparkling prose and 150 beautiful illustrations that clarify the science. Each chapter opens with an exciting personal anecdote that leads into the scientific exploration of a distinct inhabitant of the sea world--allowing the reader to experience firsthand the incredible complexity of sea life.
A one-of-a-kind memoir that unfolds in remarkable reaches of ocean few of us can ever visit for ourselves, Sensuous Seas brings the underwater world back to living room and classroom alike. Readers will be surprised at how much marine biology they have learned while being amused.
- 286 pages
- English
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- Available on iOS & Android
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BiowissenschaftenSubtopic
MeeresbiologieTable of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface: What Is a Marine Biologist?
- Acknowledgments
- Apologia
- Prologue: The Perils of Teaching
- Chapter 1: Deadly Darts
- Chapter 2: The Great Jade Green Octopus Hunt
- Chapter 3: Bedtime Stories
- Chapter 4: Garden of Eden: The Death Apple and the Tree of Life
- Chapter 5: A True Romance Story
- Chapter 6: Elixir of Love
- Chapter 7: Skinny South Sea Sausages
- Chapter 8: The Only Male Reproductive Organ with a Name
- Chapter 9: Living Lance
- Chapter 10: Role Reversal
- Chapter 11: Super Male
- Chapter 12: Miracle Fish
- Chapter 13: Fugu
- Chapter 14: Bunnies of the Sea
- Chapter 15: Passion for Purple
- Chapter 16: Size Does Count
- Chapter 17: Fiddler on the Root
- Chapter 18: Beware the Duppy
- Chapter 19: The Secret of an Improved Sex Life
- Chapter 20: How to Court a Female
- Chapter 21: The Anti-BLB Club
- Chapter 22: Sea Pussy
- Chapter 23: Debunking the Big Lie
- Chapter 24: A Peek into the Anus of a Sea Cucumber
- Chapter 25: The Yellow Submarine
- Chapter 26: The Perils of Vanity
- Chapter 27: Sexually Repressed Victorian Taxonomists
- Chapter 28: Random Ramblings on Relationships
- Chapter 29: Penile Bloodletting
- Chapter 30: Death and Confusion
- Chapter 31: Eyeball to Eyeball
- Epilogue
- Glossary
- Illustration Sources
- Index
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