6/1/2023 0 Comments Dark Banquet by Bill Schutt![]() There are many reasons why an animal might dine on its own kind. Polar bears eating their cubs has been trotted out as an effect of climate change, but in reality it is probably just bears doing what they’ve always been doing. What you think you know about the mating habits of praying mantises, for instance, is probably based more on myth than fact. He has fun with this material but always grounds it in the scientific literature. Schutt looks at cannibalism in other animals before turning attention to humans. His latest, about a particularly nightmarish topic, doesn’t disappoint. Schutt previously wrote about blood-feeding creatures in his entertaining Dark Banquet, one of my favorite nature books. ![]() Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural Historyīy turns funny and horrifying – but never sensationalistic – Cannibalism is another excellent work of science writing by zoologist Bill Schutt. ![]()
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