Lucy Cooke

Jul 21, 2023 | bookbrowse.com | Lucy Cooke

Page 1 of 1 There is 1 reader review for Bitch Write your own review! alaska I can’t recommend this book enough. Debunks gender sterotypes in human beings through exploring the ignored nature of female animals.

May 18, 2023 | discoverwildlife.com | Lucy Cooke

Few birds have puzzled scientists more than the eclectus parrot (Ecelctus roratus). The legendary evolutionary biologist Bill Hamilton used to show a slide of two eclectus parrots in his lectures: one crimson with a cobalt bib, the other green. They were male and female, but not as you’d expect. In most sexually dimorphic birds the male is the colourful character – ornamentation being an indicator of his fitness – and the female drab.

May 17, 2023 | senmagazine.co.uk | Lucy Cooke

Use the five senses and help children develop a better relationship with food, says Lucy CookeChildhood eating and feeding difficulties are common, particularly in neuro-divergent children and in those with developmental delay. Children with autism, ADD, dyspraxia or sensory modulation difficulties may experience the taste, smell, sight and feel of food differently than neurotypical children because of altered sensory thresholds in one or more senses.

Apr 4, 2023 | discoverwildlife.com | Lucy Cooke

Few animal courtships are as strange or, quite frankly, as silly as that of the greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus). In early spring, sage grouse bachelors – resplendent in their spiky fantail finery – gather in large numbers on the North American sagebrush plains to compete for a mate.

Mar 28, 2023 | toddleabout.co.uk | Lucy Cooke

By Research Psychologist, Dr Lucy CookeYoung children eat what they like and they like what they know. In other words, the foods that children like to eat are the ones that they are most familiar with. Being faced with new, or unfamiliar foods can be anxiety-provoking and it’s common for young children to reject new foods, particularly fruits and vegetables.