New Delhi: Did you know giraffes endanger their lives every time they bend down to drink water? This is because the heart increases blood pressure to pump blood up to the brain due to their long necks.
In her book ‘Every Creature Has A Story’, author-journalist Janaki Lenin uncovers such fascinating and sometimes bizarre facts to look at the different ways in which animals breed and survive.
The book, published by Harper Collins India, will be released on 13 August on SoftCover, ThePrint’s e-venue to launch select non-fiction books.
Full of witty and evocative words, Lenin delves into the wonders of the natural world — from spiders salivating during sex to why elephants don’t have cancer.
Lenin, who lives in a village close to Chennai, has produced many wildlife documentaries for National Geographic with her husband and also had a career as a freelance journalist. She has also worked in the field of environmental advocacy.
In 2007, she co-authored an action plan for tackling elephant-human conflicts in Indian farmlands. From 2008-2012, she was the regional chair of the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Crocodile.
Lenin has also helped draft an action plan to manage non-human primates in public spaces and drew up an action plan to deal with human-leopard conflicts in 2011.
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