Description
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.
Number of pages: 480
Dimensions: 198 x 127 x 30 mm
