Birds, Sex and Beauty by Matt Ridley

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/161037 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Birds, Sex and Beauty Author: Matt Ridley Narrator: Matt Ridley Format: mp3 Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins Release date: 03-13-25 Ratings: Not rated yet Genres: Aesthetics Publisher's Summary: In all animals, mating is a deal. But few creatures behave as if sex is a simple transaction. Many treat it with reverence, suspicion, angst and violence. In the case of the Black Grouse, the bird at the center of Matt Ridley’s investigation, the males dance and sing for hours a day, for several exhausting months, in an exhausting and sometimes deadly ritual called a ‘lek’. To prepare for the ordeal, they grow, preen and display fancy, twisted, bold-colored feathers.