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Index
Cover
Dedication
Epigraph
Endlessness: Demodex mites, humans
Sex and the single slug: Slugs
2, 8, 10, 12, 13, 18: Mammals and mammaries
Champagne Lifestyle: New species
Allspice, ant-killer: Taxonomy and systematics
Orang orang: Orang-utan and other primates
My family and other family: Classification
Below the drop-off: Coral
Lemurs and archbishops: Primates
Spineless: Introduction to invertebrates
Long-jump gold medal: Bushbaby
Architects of human culture: Wasps
The lion, the glitch and the glove compartment: Lion
Brother sponge: Sponges
The profile of Winnie-the-Pooh: Bears
Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish: Glass sponge
Il buono, il brutto e il cattivo: Hyena
Sod the rainforest: More coral
The half-and-halfers: Seals
Walking plants: Sea anemones
Wimbledon champion: Bovids
Infernal agony of gelatinous zooplankton: Jellyfish
Walking with lechwe: Lechwe and genenuk
Life in the round: Starfish
Do I know you?: Naked mole rat
Flatworm, flatworm, burning bright: Flatworm
The elephant in the corridor: Elephant
The holiness of tapeworms: Tapeworm
Plan A for aardvark: Aardvark
Unkillable bears: Tardigrades
Flying flashers: Idiurus
Cans and cans of worms: Nematodes
Self-sharpening chisels: Rodents
Tipping the velvet worm: Velvet worm
Dirty rats: Rat
Another can of worms: Annelid worms
Good old Ratty: Water-vole and dormouse
Trio for piano, bassoon and earthworm: Earthworm
Night-leaper: Spring-hare
The daughters of Doris: Ribbon worms
Flashin’ sunshine children: Shrews
Becaue I am many: Bryozoans
That breathtaking breath: Whales
Getting silly: Lampshells
Song of the sea: Whalesong
Dirty beasts: Penis worms
Gnomes of the river: River dolphins
Us alone: Placazoans
Disgustingly upside down: Bats
Lacing Venus’s girdle: Comb jellies
The altruistic vampire: Vampire bats
Here be mud dragons: Mud dragons
Pocket dynamo: Marsupials
The Hamlet worm: Nematomorphs
Death comes for the Elephant’s Child: More elephants
Who needs oxygen?: Loricifera
Epiphany: Even more elephants
A bit samey: Arrow worms
Time for transition: Platypus
The peanut trick: Peanut worms
Feather: Kestrel
No sex please, we’re bdelloids: Rotifers
The nausea of Charles Darwin: Peacock
Evolution in reverse?: Thorny-headed worms
How many ways of catching a fish?: Toucan, river birds
****!: Hairy-backs
Look, no stabilisers: Bateleur
The crypto-bums: Goblet worms
Same bat time, same bat hawk: Bat hawk
Lobsterisimus bumakissimus: Symbions
The dark side: Owls
Is-ness: Jaw worms
Crisis relocation: Terns
The Quaker worm: Xenoturbellids
Swift scramming frenzy: Swifts
Gutless, brainless: Acoelomorphs
Jewels that breathe: Hummingbirds
Just one more thing: Phoronids
The wardrobe bird: Flamingos
James Bond and the kraken: Giant squid
Instant birder: Lilac-breasted roller
Superslug: Octopus
The Clever Club: Crows
Nautilus but nice: Nautilus
Bell-beat of their wings: Swans
She sells seashells: Shell-wearing molluscs
22:1: Albatross
Fearful the death of the diver must be: Giant clam
No flying, please, we’re birds: Flightless birds
Valuing oysters: Oysters
Do I contradict myself?: Penguins
One more twist: Gastropods
Hijoputido: Passerines
Creeping like snail: Giant African land snail
Wild thing: Marsh warbler
On our last legs: Arthropods
Blood-chilling: Crocodiles
A suit of armour: Japanese spider crab
Snakes, unclad humans and a garden: Snakes
Beloved barnacles: Barnacles
Secret snakes: Adder
The silk route: Spiders
Disgusting clumsy lizards: Lizards
The Kalahari Ferrari: Solifugids
Good luck, little metaphor: Turtles
Twenty centimetres!: Centipedes
Shape-shifters: Amphibians
Second innings: Large blue butterfly
When I was a rain god: Frogs
Laser epiphany: Blue morpho
Death by frog: Golden poison frog
Les demoiselles du Waveney: Dragonflies
A miraculous draught of newts: Newts
Cannibal sex: Praying mantis
Beautiful shirts: Caecilians
Unreal city: Termites
“Fish”: Fish
True bugs suck: Bugs
The stillness of salmon: Salmon
Let copulation thrive: Flies
The Eden fish: Cleaner fish
Prostitutes and clients: Bees
That’s no parasite: that’s my husband: Anglerfish
The wasp and the devil’s chaplain: Wasps
The sinking fish: Sharks
The best butter: Butterflies and moths
No bones about it: Cartilaginous fish
Inordinate fondness and all that: Beetles
Ray of Sunshine: Manta ray
Axis of weevil: Weevils
The beginning: Jawless fish, lobe-finned fish
Acknowledgements
About Simon Barnes
Index
Copyright
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