Sex, Drugs, and sea Slime: The Oceans' Oddest Creatures and why They Matter [Audiobook] download free by Ellen Prager
- Listen audiobook: Sex, Drugs, and sea Slime: The Oceans' Oddest Creatures and why They Matter
- Author: Ellen Prager
- Release date: 2011/1/29
- Publisher: THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Natural History
- ISBN: 9780226678726
- Rating: 8.95 of 10
- Votes: 180
- Review by: Salvatore Kaminski
- Review rating: 9.76 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/18
- Duration: 2H41M39S in 256 kbps (43.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-09
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MP3, FLAC, WMA, MPEG4, ATRAC, AU, WAV (compression RAR, AZW3, TAR, ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 216
- Includes a PDF summary of 19 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 14M37S (3.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: When viewed from a quiet beach, the ocean, with its rolling waves and vast expanse, can seem calm, even serene. But hidden beneath the sea's waves are a staggering abundance and variety of active creatures, engaged in the never-ending struggles of life-to reproduce, to eat, and to avoid being eaten. With 'Sex, Drugs, and Sea Slime', marine scientist Ellen Prager takes us deep into the sea to introduce an astonishing cast of fascinating and bizarre creatures that make the salty depths their home. From the tiny but voracious arrow worms whose rapacious ways may lead to death by overeating, to the lobsters that battle rivals or seduce mates with their urine, to the sea's masters of disguise, the octopuses, Prager not only brings to life the ocean's strange creatures but also reveals the ways they interact as predators, prey, or potential mates.And while these animals make for some jaw-dropping stories-witness the sea cucumber, which ejects its own intestines to confuse predators, or the hagfish that ties itself into a knot to keep from suffocating in its own slime-there's far more to Prager's account than her ever-entertaining anecdotes: again and again, she illustrates the crucial connections between life in the ocean and humankind, in everything from our food supply to our economy, and in drug discovery, biomedical research, and popular culture. Written with a diver's love of the ocean, a novelist's skill at storytelling, and a scientist's deep knowledge, 'Sex, Drugs, and Sea Slime' enchants as it educates, enthralling us with the wealth of life in the sea-and reminding us of the need to protect it.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Marine & Freshwater Mammals, Wildlife: Aquatic Creatures, Marine Biology, Popular Science
- Download servers: FileServe, BitShare, Mediafire, MEGA, Openload. Compressed in RAR, AZW3, TAR, ZIP
- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 38.49 USD
- Dimensions: 152x229x17.78mm
- Weight: 453.59g
- Printed by: University of Chicago Press
- Published in: Chicago, IL, United States
Vote:
‹
›
