TY - BOOK AU - Lenin, Janaki TI - Every creature has a story : what science reveals about animal behaviour SN - 9789353578602 U1 - 591.5 PY - 2020/// CY - Uttar Pradesh, India : PB - HarperCollins Publishers KW - Animal behavior. N1 - Introduction Foreword Good Singers Make the Best Dads 2 Chimpanzees in Mourning The Eye of the Chameleon The Oddest Bird in the World 5 Vaccinated Bees The Scent of a Fur Seal 7 Conservative Chimpanzees Sex Change in Bearded Dragons Wasps Enslave Spiders to Weave for Them How Do Echidnas Survive Wildfires? Plants with Private Armies 27 Did Moby Dick Sink the Pequod? The Giraffes Neck Solution Airborne Sleep Learning from Monkeys? HoneyCollecting with Birds Are Humpback Whales Altruistic? The Playful Keas of New Zealand Making Peace with Wolves The Amorous Octopus Pregnant Fathers Why Dont Elephants Get Cancer? Sticklebacks Hold Their Water 15 Who am I? Rodent Monogamy The Snake that Dodges Predators? Food or Mates? Dodging Old Age 20 Shark Navigation A Parasite that Meddles with Behaviour? High Speed Bird Vision Empathetic Rodents Bizarre Spider Peeing on Eggs No Ants Left Behind Feigning Death to Avoid Sex? Scolding Egyptian Fruit Bats Music in the Wild Land Snails Secret Weapons Sex Drive in Fish 41 Voting in African Wild Dogs Locking Poisons Laziness Has Its Uses Shrinking Shrews Dads vs Cannibals N2 - This is a collection of short essays that Janaki Lenin had written for the online publication, each essay examining one interesting feature of the behaviour and/or physiognomy of a creature. Almost all of these are animals of some kind, though there’s also a fascinating story of a plan ER -