Wild Love

By N. Richardson and Catherine Chermayef

Wild Love takes you on a journey through thirty-six mating rituals, from the cumbersome wooing of giant tortoises to the passionate flight of courting egrets to the cruel dance of the praying mantis.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811804526
• ISBN13: 9780811804523
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Chronicle Books (CA)
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.8" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Cute and informative

The mating and courtship rituals of 36 species from damselflies to lions are chronicled in lush, crisp color photos from a variety of photographers (credited on the last page). A few succinct informative paragraphs under cute titles such as "Two To Tangle" (snakes) or "Jaws of Desire" (crocodiles) accompany the photos. The authors briefly describe the life habits of animals - an elephant seal bull, for instance, will go three months without food to devote himself to procreation, but let another male approach and its fight or flight. The photography - all of it excellent - offers images from fascinating to funny. "Wild Love" is a browsers' book and a stimulant to conversation.