Battle of the sexes: in the animal world.
London: BBC Books, 1999. Small quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper.
Sex in the natural world is aggressive, competitive and sometimes fatal. Every living creature has an overwhelming desire to breed but, fascinatingly, the genders are profoundly at odds concerning with whom they mate and the amount of effort they put into raising their offspring. As Battle of the sexes vividly reveals, the drive to succeed at the mating game gives rise to some of the most elegant, violent and spectacular shows of animal behaviour on earth.