Marty Crump

Marty Crump is a behavioral ecologist who works with tropical amphibians in the areas of parental care, reproduction, territoriality, cannibalism, and tadpole ecology. She has published several books based on her research and experiences in tropical areas such as Costa Rica, Brazil, Chile, and Argentina including In Search of the Golden Frog -- one of the first books to sound the alarm about the precipitous decline in amphibian populations around the globe.^[1][2]

She studied at the University of Kansas under the eminent William Duellman, one of the world's top experts on tree frogs, receiving her Ph.D in 1974. She is currently an adjunct professor at Northern Arizona University and a Conservation Fellow of the Wildlife Conservation Society.^[3]

List of works

• Headless Males Make Great Lovers: And Other Unusual Natural Histories by Marty Crump (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2006, ISBN 9780226121994)

• In Search of the Golden Frog by Marty Crump (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2000, ISBN 9780226121987)

• Mysteries of the Komodo Dragon: The Biggest, Deadliest Lizard Gives Up Its Secrets by Marty Crump (Honesdale, PA: Boyds Mills Press, 2010, ISBN 9781590787571)

• Sexy Orchids Make Lousy Lovers: & Other Unusual Relationships by Marty Crump (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2009, ISBN 9780226121857)

References

1. ^ http://chance.psu.edu/module05/bio-crump.htm
2. ^ http://www.frogs.org/sitestuff/board.asp#Marty%20Crump
3. ^ http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=bio&bookkey=3614740

External links

• An excerpt from Headless Males Make Great Lovers: and Other Unusual Natural Histories

• An excerpt from In Search of the Golden Frog

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