FEARLESS FEMALES
by Mario Ludwig (teNeues £35, 208pp)
FEARLESS FEMALES by Mario Ludwig (teNeues £35, 208pp)
Did you realize that babies elephants can sunburn easily? A mud bath is not only refreshing and relaxing, but also helps protect their delicate skin from sunburn.
A male kingfisher may offer a gift for their partner during courtship to show that they are worthy of the relationship. And, on several occasions, female octopuses have been seen to strangle their partner to death after mating, while the female praying mantis is notorious for biting off her mate’s head during the act. You can’t talk about women fatales.
There are many more fascinating facts as well as stunning, and sometimes gruesome, photographs in Mario Ludwig’s book highlighting the fearless females of the animal kingdom.