Publisher's Synopsis
The first professionally researched miscellany guide to the animal kingdom, packed with fascinating and bizarre facts· Did you know that the male flour beetle is the only animal which can mate and impregnate a female he has never met?· That virgin male butterflies make better lovers than more experienced ones?· Or that rats can learn the difference between Dutch and Japanese?Why Do Moths Drink Elephants' Tears? is an entertaining and addictive collection of eclectic insights and unusual facts, detailing the wondrous diversity of animal life that surrounds us.
