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

di Lucy Cooke (Autore)

Transworld Publishers Ltd, 2018

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 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.

• Autore: Lucy Cooke
• Editore: Transworld Publishers Ltd
• Anno: 2018
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 480 p.
• Dimensioni: 197 x 128 mm
• Peso: 379 gr.
• EAN: 9781784161903

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