Catie’s Reviews > Queer Ducks (and Other Animals): The Natural World of Animal Sexuality > Status Update

176 of pages not including acknowledgements, glossary, notes, selected bibliography, index, etc. 225 total. Finished after midnight so write down August 30.

I appreciate the author not including all names for scientists/researchers with homosexual opinions. They don’t need the free promotion and it doesn’t hinder the storytelling.

“…animal sexuality resists simplification. It certainly doesn’t march neatly onto an ark in boy-girl pairs.”

Omg I need to remember to mention this next time i am around antlers on the wall- male deer often rub their antlers on vegetation as a form of masturbation

Some white-tailed deer have male genitalia and antlers, but they never shed off the velvet and their bodies are more like does, and they live separate from does and bucks. This is kinda cute, kinda sad

Dimorphic- 2 distinct types / looks

Parasitoid- a wasp that completes its life cycle inside another bug and then lives free as an adult

“When a male Giraffe sniffs a female’s rear end- without any mounting, erection, penetration, or ejaculation– he is described as being sexually interested in her […] Yet when a male Giraffe sniffs another male’s genitals, mounts him with an erect penis, and ejaculates– then he is engaging in ‘aggressive’ or ‘dominance’ behavior […]”

So true!! I never thought about that