Sensuous Seas
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Sensuous Seas

Tales of a Marine Biologist

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  2. English
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Sensuous Seas

Tales of a Marine Biologist

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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.

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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2006
ISBN
9781400835645
Topic
Biological Sciences
Subtopic
Marine Biology
Index
Biological Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Preface: What Is a Marine Biologist?
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Apologia
  8. Prologue: The Perils of Teaching
  9. Chapter 1: Deadly Darts
  10. Chapter 2: The Great Jade Green Octopus Hunt
  11. Chapter 3: Bedtime Stories
  12. Chapter 4: Garden of Eden: The Death Apple and the Tree of Life
  13. Chapter 5: A True Romance Story
  14. Chapter 6: Elixir of Love
  15. Chapter 7: Skinny South Sea Sausages
  16. Chapter 8: The Only Male Reproductive Organ with a Name
  17. Chapter 9: Living Lance
  18. Chapter 10: Role Reversal
  19. Chapter 11: Super Male
  20. Chapter 12: Miracle Fish
  21. Chapter 13: Fugu
  22. Chapter 14: Bunnies of the Sea
  23. Chapter 15: Passion for Purple
  24. Chapter 16: Size Does Count
  25. Chapter 17: Fiddler on the Root
  26. Chapter 18: Beware the Duppy
  27. Chapter 19: The Secret of an Improved Sex Life
  28. Chapter 20: How to Court a Female
  29. Chapter 21: The Anti-BLB Club
  30. Chapter 22: Sea Pussy
  31. Chapter 23: Debunking the Big Lie
  32. Chapter 24: A Peek into the Anus of a Sea Cucumber
  33. Chapter 25: The Yellow Submarine
  34. Chapter 26: The Perils of Vanity
  35. Chapter 27: Sexually Repressed Victorian Taxonomists
  36. Chapter 28: Random Ramblings on Relationships
  37. Chapter 29: Penile Bloodletting
  38. Chapter 30: Death and Confusion
  39. Chapter 31: Eyeball to Eyeball
  40. Epilogue
  41. Glossary
  42. Illustration Sources
  43. Index