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Perrin Roosevelt Ireland on the Hidden Sex Lives of Cephalopods
The following is from Poking the Squid: What We Can Learn from Animal Sex by Perrin Roosevelt Ireland.
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Excerpted from Poking the Squid: What We Can Learn from Animal Sex by Perrin Roosevelt Ireland. Copyright © 2026 by Perrin Roosevelt Ireland. Used with permission of the publisher, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. All rights reserved.
Perrin Roosevelt Ireland
Perrin Roosevelt Ireland is an artist and environmentalist. For a decade, she worked at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), ultimately as deputy to the executive director. Her artwork has been published in Discover, Nature, Scientific American, and The Rumpus. She serves on the board of the Roosevelt Institute, was an inaugural Artist in Residence at the New York Aquarium, and is a Banff Graphic Novel Resident. Perrin lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her cats (and muses) Ursula and Pudge.
