
The Unexpected Truth About Animals : Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos and Other Wild Tales Paperback / softback
by Lucy Cooke
Paperback / softback
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Shortlisted for the 2018 Royal Society Investment Science Book Prize'Endlessly fascinating.' - Bill Bryson 'Eye-opening, informative and very funny!' - Chris Packham'Well-informed and downright funny' - Richard DawkinsHistory 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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:480 pages
- Publisher:Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Publication Date:31/05/2018
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- ISBN:9781784161903
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:480 pages
- Publisher:Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Publication Date:31/05/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9781784161903