No. UT: Book Club Hike – Bitch: On the Female Species at Willow Lake

About This Event

Join ambassador Alison Bond and co-founder Angelique Fish for our 3rd on-trail book club event of 2025! For this event, we’ll read the book Bitch: On the Female Species by Lucy Cooke. Then, on September 17, we’ll do a short hike to Willow. Once there, we’ll set up our chairs for our book club discussion–and hopefully see a moose (female, preferably).

Bitch is a fierce, funny, and revolutionary look at the queens of the animal kingdom. Since Charles Darwin, evolutionary biologists have been convinced that the males of the animal kingdom are the interesting ones—dominating and promiscuous, while females are dull, passive, and devoted.

In Bitch, Cooke tells a new story. Whether investigating same-sex female albatross couples that raise chicks, murderous mother meerkats, or the titanic battle of the sexes waged by ducks, Cooke shows us a new evolutionary biology, one where females can be as dynamic as any male. This isn’t your grandfather’s evolutionary biology. It’s more inclusive, truer to life, and, simply, more fun.