The Unexpected Truth About Animals de Lucy Cooke

Date de parution : 05.2018
Format : Broché
Nombre de pages : 469
Résumé : 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. ...