Marty Crump

Marty Crump is an adjunct professor of biology at Utah State and Northern Arizona Universities. She has been a herpetologist for more than fifty years, working with tropical amphibians to study parental care, reproduction, territoriality, cannibalism, and tadpole ecology. For at least that long, she has been intrigued with the folklore of amphibians and reptiles. She is the author or coauthor of fourteen books, including In Search of the Golden Frog , Headless Males Make Great Lovers , Sexy...See more

Marty Crump is an adjunct professor of biology at Utah State and Northern Arizona Universities. She has been a herpetologist for more than fifty years, working with tropical amphibians to study parental care, reproduction, territoriality, cannibalism, and tadpole ecology. For at least that long, she has been intrigued with the folklore of amphibians and reptiles. She is the author or coauthor of fourteen books, including In Search of the Golden Frog , Headless Males Make Great Lovers , Sexy Orchids Make Lousy Lovers, A Year with Nature , and Frog Day, all also published by the University of Chicago Press. Most recently, she is the editor of Lost Frogs and Hot Snakes: Herpetologists' Tales from the Field . See less