The unexpected truth about animals stoned sloths, lovelorn hippos and other wild tales
Humans have walked on the moon and discovered the Higgs boson, but when it come to understanding animals we still have a long way to go. We once thought that eels spontaneously generated from mud and that bears gave birth to formless lumps which they then licked into shape. We still believe penguins...
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The unexpected truth about animals : |b stoned sloths, lovelorn hippos and other wild tales / |c Lucy Cooke. |
| 250 | |a Black Swan edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a London : |b Black Swan, |c 2018. | |
| 300 | |a 469 pages : |b illustrations ; |c 20 cm | ||
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| 500 | |a Originally published: Doubleday, 2016. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Eel -- Beaver -- Sloth -- Hyena -- Vulture -- Bat -- Frog -- Stork -- Hippopotamus -- Moose -- Panda -- Penguin -- Chimpanzee. | |
| 520 | |a Humans have walked on the moon and discovered the Higgs boson, but when it come to understanding animals we still have a long way to go. We once thought that eels spontaneously generated from mud and that bears gave birth to formless lumps which they then licked into shape. We still believe penguins are cute, sloths are lazy and vultures have filthy habits. The truth is something else entirely. Zoologist Lucy Cooke takes us on a global adventure, consulting the world's experts to discover the truth behind bizarre tales of self-gelding beavers and news reports of drunken moose. Her research uncovers fascinating and entirely unexpected animal facts alongside extraordinary stories of the science and scientists of the past: jaw-dropping experiments and theories that often tell us as much about ourselves and our relationship with the natural world as the actual animals concerned. | ||
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