Pop: Mormon cricket mating habits

Or proof that you never know what a Google News alert will drag in...

From a round-up review of children's books that appeared in the Oct. 9 edition of the Globe and Mail -- an example of one of the facts included in the recently-published Animals and Their Mates: How Animals Attract, Fight for and Protect Each Other:

"Female Mormon crickets fight each other, vying to be the one to receive the 'choosy' male's sperm package."