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Further information
Animal Fact.com
Links to articles and news highlighting some unusual facts about animals.
Animal Sex Advice from Dr. Tatiana
Audio-clip interview with Dr Tatiana with extracts from her book.
Asexual Reproduction
Explains how asexual reproduction works, with accompanying images.
Asexual Reproduction in Plants and Animals
Looks at asexual reproduction in both plants and animals, and assesses the advantages it has over sexual reproduction.
Battle of the Sexes
Reveals the biology behind the clichés and delves further into the gender divide.
Channel 4 Health Site
Tons of information on health issues, covering sex and relationships, with sex tips and an extensive Q&A section.
Dr Tatiana’s Sex Advice to All Creation
Official website of the animal sex therapist Dr Olivia Judson.
Kama Sutra – Animated
Written in ancient India, the Kama Sutra is essentially a technical guide and a scholarly treatise to sexual enjoyment and other sensual pleasures. This is an online animated (but not animal) version.
Penis Power in the Animal World
The battle to reproduce the best possible offspring often depends on complex sex organs.
Science and Nature: Animals
Huge resource from the BBC, with a children’s zone and a section on conservation.
Sex Tips for Animals: A lighthearted look at
mating
National Geographic article that looks at the findings of Dr Tatiana on sexual mores among animals.
Things About the Animal Kingdom Your Parents
Never Told You
Fun overview of some of the more amazing quirks of nature.
Why Y? The Y chromosome in the study of human evolution, migration and prehistory
Gives a basic history of the sex genes through human evolution.
World Sex Records
Click on the ‘animal and plant kingdoms’ to read about the most copious ejaculators or the most vaginas in one animal.
Books
Biological Exuberance: Animal homosexuality and natural diversity by Bruce Bagemihl (Stonewall, 2000)
Looks at the widespread homosexual behaviour in the animal kingdom.
Chimpanzee Politics: Power and sex
among apes by Frans De Waal (John Hopkins University Press, 2000)
Detailed and engrossing account of sexual rivalries and coalitions among apes, reaffirming the complex bond between humans and their closest living relatives, the chimpanzees.
Dr Tatiana’s Sex Advice To All Creation: The definitive guide to the evolutionary biology of sex by Olivia Judson (Vintage, 2003)
Demystifies the world of evolutionary biology as it puts countless creatures at ease with their sexual identity.
Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex by Alice D Dreger (Harvard University Press, 2000)
Explores encounters between hermaphrodites – people born with ‘ambiguous’ sexual anatomy – and the medical and scientific professionals who grapple with them.
The Kama Sutra by Anne Hooper (Dorling Kindersley, 2000)
A reinterpretation of the text originally written for the Indian nobility, which teaches that in order to achieve true sexual ecstasy, fulfilment and ‘karma’, lovers need to achieve a union of mind and body.
The Natural History of Sex: The ecology and evolution of mating behaviour by Adrian Forsyth (Firefly Books, 2001)
Classic reference book about the weird diversity of sexual behaviour; it presents a series of essays about sex and courtship in the natural world, and explores the consequences of the more bizarre patterns of sexual behaviour.
The Sexual Brain by Simon LeVay (The MIT Press, 1994)
Examines the biological roots of human sexual behaviour. It puts forward the compelling case that the diversity of human sexual feelings and behaviour can best be understood in terms of the development, structure and function of the brain circuits that produce them.
Sexual Selections: What we can and can’t learn about sex from animals by Marlene Zuk (University of California Press, 2002)
Discusses such politically charged topics as motherhood, the genetic basis for adultery, the female orgasm, menstruation and homosexuality.