Gay ducks book

Among the numerous accolades for this young adult book focusing on the diversity of naturally occurring same-sex sexual behavior among nonhuman animals (animals) we read, "A thoughtful, thought-provoking, and incredibly fun study of queerness. In fact, they're soon driven out by the males.

Bestselling author Eliot Schrefer's new book, Queer Ducks (and Other Animals): The Natural World of Animal Sexuality is a winner in many different ways. Or the males and females of many species. But because I have a transgender daughter and left a church that doesn't affirm LGBTQ people, I especially enjoyed the chapter on velvet-horned deer.

Of course, God also made "day and night" -- and we still know about twilight. So. Just how queer are ducks? Velvet-horns don't produce offspring, but live out healthy deer lives in their own velvet-horn societies. Author Eliot Schrefer chats QUEER DUCKS on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.

Known as velvet-horns, these intersex deer don't enter the pecking order of the rest of the deer society. In the past, we didn't have an easy way to tell male and female penguins apart. Queer Ducks Recipient of a Printz Honor from the American Library Association Named an " essential read " by Psychology Today One of the Top 10 Teen Books of from the New York Public Library 5 Starred Reviews!

That's just part of the chapter about animals apparently outside the gender binary. Well, now we have blood tests we can use to determine sex, and there's a whole lot more going on out there. Listen to my discussion of the book on All Things Considered with host Sacha Pfeiffer (8 mins) Or listen to my conversation with Jonathan Van Ness on their "Getting Curious" podcast.

As they reach sexual maturity, the velvet is generally shed, revealinng the bone antlers underneath. The thing is? You hang out with your "found family" of like-minded deer, skip the work of birthing your own fawns, and avoid the deer-on-deer violence of the bachelor herds.

So when scientists saw animals having sex or doing sexy things, they assumed they were looking at males and females. The entire book is fascinating and eye-opening, even for me, a straight cisgender woman. It's a Printz Honor young adult book filled with comics and humor and accessible science, and it's filled with research on the diversity of sexual behavior in the animal world."This.

NPR's "All Things Considered," calls Queer Ducks "teenager-friendly. Well, that's merely a drop in the bucket of same-sex relationships in the animal kingdom. You've probably heard of the book And Tango Makes Three -- a book about two male penguins starting a family and hatching an egg together?

It's a Printz Honor young adult book filled with comics and humor and accessible science, and it's filled with research on the diversity of sexual behavior in the animal world."This groundbreaking illustrated YA nonfiction title from two-time National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Eliot Schrefer is.

The book is motivated by compassion, as Schrefer explains: “I think care for animals leads to greater care for humans, too, since we all share the natural world, and the same systems of power that endanger animals also endanger humans.”. In fact, "The number of species with confirmed substantial queer behaviors, published in well-regarded scientific journals, is 1, and growing.

NPR's "All Things Considered," calls Queer Ducks "teenager-friendly. But I wish I could show it to the pastor whose entire argument that being transgender is "against God's design" was because of a verse in Genesis that says God created them "male and female. Watch This! As they grow from yearlings into adults, all male deer go through a "velvet" stage, in which their growing horns are covered by soft fuzz.

This groundbreaking illustrated YA nonfiction title from two-time National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Eliot Schrefer is a well-researched and teen-friendly exploration of the gamut of queer behaviors observed in animals. Life as a velvet-horn sounds kind of awesome, actually.

We’re taught the natural. Oh my goodness, I learned so much from this book! But I didn't know anything about velvet-horned deer. Some deer born with external male genitalia, though, never shed their velvet, and have bodies closer to those of female deer.

NPR's "All Things Considered," calls Queer Ducks "teenager-friendly. I already knew that many varieties of fish and frogs often change their gender. They skip the bachelor herds and the groups of mothers, and instead form their own troops of three to seven velvet-horns.

It's a Printz Honor young adult book filled with comics and humor and accessible science, and it's filled with research on the diversity of sexual behavior in the animal world." This groundbreaking illustrated YA nonfiction title from two-time National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Eliot Schrefer.