Any writer who nderstands the virtues and respects the ability of insects to be tough creatures is not a bad dude in my book. Author and Biology professor Douglas Emlan brings readers into te world of animal a d bug combat with an excellent book of his years of research examine creatures and their similarities to our love of combat.
Most people think of tusks and horns when thinking of animal combating usually for access to reproduction and this book does cover this phenomenon of ungulates but surprising the importance of horns ini lizards andI sects is also very prevalent. The parallels of these separate species with one another and human warfare is pretty much what this whole oak is all about and the author clearly shows his enthusiasm for this fact with this inquisitive book called "Animal Weapons". This is a guy that pretty much knows everything on animal weaponry and self-defense methods that only millions of years of evolutionary change could produce. The essential arms race for species survival and massive evolutionary adaptations these animals develope shows the remarkable kingdom the animal habitat and habits can result. Emlan shows how costly the massive antlers of an Irish Elk can be to the makes of this species to have to carry around these antlers. T
The conflicts between mostly male species for access and success to spread ones genes and Emlan will go through the worse stenches of howler monkey feces just to find and study the dung Beatles horn alterations just to get a enter sense of insect combativeness successions. Any professor willing to do that to prove experimentations deserves to have his book read and celebrated.
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