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Bitch: On the Female of the Species by Lucy Cooke is a popular science book about animal behavior, evolutionary biology, and the cultural biases that have shaped scientific ideas about sex. Written by a zoologist and science communicator, it argues that female animals have long been misunderstood through male-centered assumptions that cast them as passive, monogamous, or biologically secondary. Cooke uses examples from across the animal kingdom to show that female aggression, dominance, promiscuity, cooperation, and same-sex pair bonding are all part of natural variation, not exceptions to be ignored. The book also examines how women scientists helped challenge older interpretations by asking different questions and noticing patterns overlooked by earlier researchers. Its purpose is both educational and corrective: it explains how scientific narratives are built, why some became distorted, and what a more inclusive view of animal life reveals about evolution, sex, and behavior.