The Unexpected Truth About Animals

Author(s): Lucy Cooke

Animals

History is full of strange animal stories, invented by the brightest and most influential, from Aristotle to Disney, and they reveal as much about us and the things we believe as they do about the animals they misrepresent. We once thought that eels were born from sand, that swallows migrated to the moon, and that bears gave birth to formless lumps that were licked into shape by their mothers.In The Unexpected Truth About Animals, zoologist Lucy Cooke unravels many such myths, revealing the fascinating - and often hilarious - facts she's uncovered while chasing hyenas, spying on tobogganing penguins and stalking drunken moose. You'll learn why sloths risk their lives to poo, how bats joined the Allies in the Second World War, and the mystery of the beaver's balls. And you'll discover that even the most outlandish theories may have some truth in them after all.

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"Endlessly fascinating." * Bill Bryson * "Lucy Cooke's modern bestiary is as well-informed as you'd expect from an Oxford zoologist. It's also downright funny ..." * Richard Dawkins * "Fantastic. The new Origin of Species. A proper page turner." * Vic Reeves * "This 21st century bestiary is as surprising as it is diverse. Consummate natural history writing: illuminating, remarkable - and very, very funny." * Professor Alice Roberts * "Fascinating facts combined with hilarious ridiculousness." * Tony Robinson *

Lucy Cooke is an award-winning broadcaster and filmmaker with a Masters in zoology from Oxford university (where she was tutored by Richard Dawkins). She started her TV career behind the scenes in comedy but is becoming an increasingly familiar face of natural history having presented prime time series for BBC, ITV and National Geographic. She writesfor the Telegraph and the Huffington Post,and was recently called 'the new DavidAttenborough' by The Times. Her onlyprevious book (a picture book aboutsloths - The Little Book of Sloth) was aNew York Times bestseller.

General Fields

  • : 9780857524102
  • : Transworld Publishers Ltd
  • : Doubleday
  • : 0.517
  • : October 2017
  • : 234mm X 153mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : November 2017
  • : books

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  • : Lucy Cooke
  • : Paperback
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