The father featured in the first book now has another teen to deal with, a male pubescent animal added to the zoo for study. And this creature shows a whole new set of intriguing behaviour patterns …
Preliminary research indicates that these organisms prefer badly aired spaces filled with piles of rubbish. Obvious behaviour traits include their horizontal perching activity, often on beds or sofas, their slow movements and impressively long rest phases, with the latter extending to their communication patterns. Significant divergence between males and females may be observed, however. The female displays a number of disquieting traits, including indiscriminate consumption of comestible and noncomestible articles, selecting of mates with no characteristics likely to ensure species survival, regular unintelligible monologues and multiple attacks of whining. The lifestyle of the male, by contrast, is composed of three activities: eating, smelling badly and playing computer games.
Yes, this all this sounds despairingly bad. But without these special creatures, life would be desperately dull, and our homes would be far too big and empty.
