Bitch

'A dazzling, funny and elegantly angry demolition of our preconceptions about female behaviour and sex in the animal kingdom ... Bitch is a blast. I read it, my jaw sagging in astonishment, jotting down favourite parts to send to friends and reading out snippets gleefully...' Observer<BR><BR>'A book that is tearing down the stereotypes and the biases. Absolutely fascinating.' BBC R4 Woman's Hour<BR><BR>'From the heir to Attenborough. 5*' - Telegraph<BR><BR>'Glorious ... A bold and gripping takedown of the sexist mythology baked into biology ... Full of marvellous surprises. Guardian<BR><BR>'Colourful, committed and deeply informed.' Sunday Times<BR><BR>'Gloriously original' Daily Mirror<BR><BR>A 'sparkling attack on scientific sexism' Nature<BR><BR>'Humorous, absorbing, sometimes shocking (for a variety of reasons), and bound to be a conversation starter' BBC Wildlife<BR><BR>'Brilliant ... Cooke is a superb science writer' TLS<BR><BR>'Zoologist Lucy Cooke's hilarious and enlightening book reclaims evolutionary biology for females of all species.' New Statesman<BR><BR>'Introduces us to a marvelous zoetrope of animals.' The Atlantic<BR><BR>'[An] effervescent exposé ... [A] playful, enlightening tour of the vanguard of evolutionary biology.' Scientific American<BR> <BR> Selected for the Telegraph's 'best books for summer 2022' and as one of the Guardian's '50 hottest new books for a great escape'.<BR>_______________________________________________________________<BR><BR>What does it mean to be female? Mother, carer, the weaker sex? Think again.<BR>In the last few decades a revolution has been brewing in zoology and evolutionary biology. Lucy Cooke introduces us to a riotous cast of animals, and the scientists studying them, that are redefining the female of the species.<BR><BR>Meet the female lemurs of Madagascar, our ancient primate cousins that dominate the males of their species physically and politically.<BR><BR>Or female albatross couples, hooking up together to raise their chicks in Hawaii.<BR><BR>Or the meerkat mothers of the Kalahari Desert - the most murderous mammals on the planet.<BR><BR>The bitches in BITCH overturn outdated binary expectations of bodies, brains, biology and behaviour. Lucy Cooke's brilliant new book will change how you think - about sex, sexual identity and sexuality in animals and also the very forces that shape evolution.<BR>__________<BR>Praise for Lucy's previous book THE UNEXPECTED TRUTH ABOUT ANIMALS<BR>'Endlessly fascinating' - Bill Bryson<BR>'I cannot remember when I enjoyed a non-fiction book so much' - Daily Express<BR>'A joy from beginning to end' - Guardian<BR>'Best science pick: deeply researched, sassily written' - Nature