What 'Queer Ducks' can teach teenagers about sexuality in the animal kingdom
The new book, Queer Ducks (and Other Animals), is designed to be teenager friendly. It's filled with comics and humor and accessible science on the diversity of sexual behavior in the animal world.
A non-fiction science book about animal sexuality could read like a dry textbook, but that's not the kind of thing that Eliot Schrefer wrote.
Schrefer's book, Queer Ducks (and Other Animals): The Natural World of Animal Sexuality, is designed to be teenager friendly. It's filled with comics and humor and accessible science on the diversity of sexual behavior in the animal world.
Each chapter is structured around a different animal accompanied by one-page comics by Jules Zuckerberg. Schrefer said he wanted to change the narrative that scientific writing was only for academic purposes.
"There's this feeling of seriousness that comes with a textbook, and for a lot
