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The Unexpected Truth About Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos and Other Wild Tales Book

Shortlisted for The Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize 2018 'Eye-opening, informative and very funny!' - Chris Packham History is full of strange animal stories invented by the brightest and most influential, from Aristotle to Disney. But when it comes to understanding animals, we've got a long way to go. Whether we're watching a viral video of romping baby pandas or looking at a picture of penguins `holding hands', we often project our own values - innocence, abstinence, hard work - onto animals. So you've probably never considered that moose get drunk and that penguins are notorious cheats. In The Unexpected Truth About Animals Zoologist Lucy Cooke unravels many such myths - that eels are born from sand, that swallows hibernate under water, and that bears gave birth to formless lumps that are licked into shape by their mothers - to show that the stories we create reveal as much about us as they do about the animals. An astonishing, illuminating and laugh-out-loud funny book that will ensure you never look at the animal kingdom in the same way again.Read More

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  • TheBookPeople

    'Endlessly fascinating.' - Bill Bryson 'Eye-opening, informative and very funny!' - Chris Packham 'Well-informed and downright funny' - Richard Dawkins History is full of strange animal stories invented by the brightest and most influential, from Aristotle to Disney. But when it comes to understanding animals, we've got a long way to go. Whether we're watching a viral video of romping baby pandas or looking at a picture of penguins `holding hands', we often project our own values - innocence, abstinence, hard work - onto animals. So you've probably never considered that moose get drunk and that penguins are notorious cheats. In The Unexpected Truth About Animals Zoologist Lucy unravels many such myths - that eels are born from sand, that swallows hibernate under water, and that bears gave birth to formless lumps that are licked into shape by their mothers - to show that the stories we create reveal as much about us as they do about the animals. Astonishing, illuminating and laugh-out-loud funny.

  • BookDepository

    The Unexpected Truth About Animals : Paperback : Transworld Publishers Ltd : 9781784161903 : : 11 Jun 2018 : In this menagerie of the misunderstood, zoologist Lucy Cooke explores centuries of animals myths, revealing the fascinating and often hilarious truths behind some of the strangest animal theories.

  • 178416190X
  • 9781784161903
  • Cooke, Lucy
  • 31 May 2018
  • Black Swan
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 480
  • 1
  • Book
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