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We are surrounded by an astounding variety of lifeforms. Over millennia, they have evolved to exploit unique niches, in the process developing features and skills that set them apart.

Have you ever wondered what price the giraffe pays for its long neck? The neck increases its blood pressure to pump blood up to its brain, which endangers its life every time it bends down to drink.

Or have you thought about how female nightingales decide which male will share the burdens of parenthood with them? They listen to prospective candidates' songs to gauge if they'd make good fathers. And did you know that glass-frogs pee on their eggs and the gender of bearded dragons is fixed by sex chromosomes or temperature?

In Every Creature Has a Story, Janaki Lenin draws us towards the wonders of the natural world in evocative and witty words. She uncovers the surprising, sometimes bizarre but always amazing ways in which creatures breed and survive, from spiders salivating during sex and snails entombing their parasites into their shells to elephants developing immunity to cancer. After reading this book, you'll never look at nature in the same way again.

 
 

Review

'Lenin breaks down scientific information and research for a lay person in simple, easy-to-understand language ... Lenin makes even rats interesting.' The Hindu

'From looking at bird song to parenting behaviour and literary history to prey-predator relationships, the author takes on complex subjects with panache and offers scientific reasoning and research in each essay, separating fact from anecdotes ... It's bizarre, it's enthralling, and it's witty. And she does all of this with clarity and a scientific curiosity.' Current Conservation

'Hearteningly, Lenin attempts to tilt the scales by showing the centrality of creatures, great and small, in the natural order.' The Telegraph

'[Every Creature Has a Story] is illustrative of Lenin's own journey into the wild: a slow, gradual immersion into tales of discovery of the natural world and its ways.' The Wire

'Lenin, who is a veteran of the genre, writes with both amusement and adoration ... The book is a 101 of sorts, to the vastness and the wondrous inscrutability of the animal world.' Outlook

'A compilation of 50 essays on scientific revelations around behavioural patterns among a variety of animal species, Lenin's upcoming book aims at communicating the otherwise complicated phenomena in an easy, everyday language and at the same time making the narrative interesting enough for readers of all age groups and temperaments to engage.' Firstpost

About the Author

Janaki Lenin -- a free-lance journalist and producer of wildlife documentaries for National Geographic Television with Rom Whitaker -- was the coordinator of the Agumbe Rainforest Research Station from 2005 until 2009. She was the Regional Chair of IUCN's Crocodile Specialist Group for South Asia and Iran between 2008 and 2012.
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  • ISBN: 9789356296770
  • Author: Janaki Lenin
  • Publisher: Harper Collins
  • Pages: 296
  • Format: Paperback
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We are surrounded by an astounding variety of lifeforms. Over millennia, they have evolved to exploit unique niches, in the process developing features and skills that set them apart.

Have you ever wondered what price the giraffe pays for its long neck? The neck increases its blood pressure to pump blood up to its brain, which endangers its life every time it bends down to drink.

Or have you thought about how female nightingales decide which male will share the burdens of parenthood with them? They listen to prospective candidates' songs to gauge if they'd make good fathers. And did you know that glass-frogs pee on their eggs and the gender of bearded dragons is fixed by sex chromosomes or temperature?

In Every Creature Has a Story, Janaki Lenin draws us towards the wonders of the natural world in evocative and witty words. She uncovers the surprising, sometimes bizarre but always amazing ways in which creatures breed and survive, from spiders salivating during sex and snails entombing their parasites into their shells to elephants developing immunity to cancer. After reading this book, you'll never look at nature in the same way again.

 
 

Review

'Lenin breaks down scientific information and research for a lay person in simple, easy-to-understand language ... Lenin makes even rats interesting.' The Hindu

'From looking at bird song to parenting behaviour and literary history to prey-predator relationships, the author takes on complex subjects with panache and offers scientific reasoning and research in each essay, separating fact from anecdotes ... It's bizarre, it's enthralling, and it's witty. And she does all of this with clarity and a scientific curiosity.' Current Conservation

'Hearteningly, Lenin attempts to tilt the scales by showing the centrality of creatures, great and small, in the natural order.' The Telegraph

'[Every Creature Has a Story] is illustrative of Lenin's own journey into the wild: a slow, gradual immersion into tales of discovery of the natural world and its ways.' The Wire

'Lenin, who is a veteran of the genre, writes with both amusement and adoration ... The book is a 101 of sorts, to the vastness and the wondrous inscrutability of the animal world.' Outlook

'A compilation of 50 essays on scientific revelations around behavioural patterns among a variety of animal species, Lenin's upcoming book aims at communicating the otherwise complicated phenomena in an easy, everyday language and at the same time making the narrative interesting enough for readers of all age groups and temperaments to engage.' Firstpost

About the Author

Janaki Lenin -- a free-lance journalist and producer of wildlife documentaries for National Geographic Television with Rom Whitaker -- was the coordinator of the Agumbe Rainforest Research Station from 2005 until 2009. She was the Regional Chair of IUCN's Crocodile Specialist Group for South Asia and Iran between 2008 and 2012.

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