The Truth About Animals

Download or read book The Truth About Animals written by Lucy Cooke and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Roach meets Bill Bryson in this "surefire summer winner" (Janet Maslin, New York Times), an uproarious tour of the basest instincts and biggest mysteries of the animal world Humans have gone to the Moon and discovered the Higgs boson, but when it comes to understanding animals, we've still got a long way to go. Whether we're seeing a viral video of romping baby pandas or a picture of penguins "holding hands," it's hard for us not to project our own values -- innocence, fidelity, temperance, hard work -- onto animals. So you've probably never considered if moose get drunk, penguins cheat on their mates, or worker ants lay about. They do -- and that's just for starters. In The Truth About Animals, Lucy Cooke takes us on a worldwide journey to meet everyone from a Colombian hippo castrator to a Chinese panda porn peddler, all to lay bare the secret -- and often hilarious -- habits of the animal kingdom. Charming and at times downright weird, this modern bestiary is perfect for anyone who has ever suspected that virtue might be unnatural.

Download or read book The Unexpected Truth about Animals written by Lucy Cooke and published by Black Swan Books, Limited. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 the many myths we humans like to believe!

Download or read book Friend Or Foe written by Etta Kaner and published by Owlkids. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes a close look at what we dislike about each of 10 unpopular animals, and then presents the flip side: these very same animals are often smart, helpful to humans and the environment, or inspiring to scientists.

Download or read book The Truth about Animal Intelligence written by Bernard Stonehouse and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the secrets and myths about animal intelligence. Are animals just as smart as humans? How do they learn? What are their instincts? Do they have feelings?

Download or read book Pets Tell the Truth written by Agnes Julia Thomas (Ph. D.) and published by Agnes J. Thomas. This book was released on 2005-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While conducting studies intended to unlock the secret workings of the animal mind, the author finds herself drawn into the spiritual and mystical world of her subjects. Through interspecies telepathic communication, she unravels the mystery of the powerful bond between animals and humans and its connection with the divine. She explains the scientific and metaphysical research that supports her work, but more importantly tells a moving and enlightening story about the power of love, why we are here, and where evolution is leading us.

Download or read book The Truth about Nature written by Bram Büscher and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How should we share the truth about the environmental crisis? At a moment when even the most basic facts about ecology and the climate face contestation and contempt, environmental advocates are at an impasse. Many have turned to social media and digital technologies to shift the tide. But what if their strategy is not only flawed, but dangerous? The Truth about Nature follows environmental actors as they turn to the internet to save nature. It documents how conservation efforts are transformed through the political economy of platforms and the algorithmic feeds that have been instrumental to the rise of post-truth politics. Developing a novel account of post-truth as an expression of power under platform capitalism, Bram Büscher shows how environmental actors attempt to mediate between structural forms of platform power and the contingent histories and contexts of particular environmental issues. Bringing efforts at wildlife protection in Southern Africa into dialogue with a sweeping analysis of truth and power in the twenty-first century, Büscher makes the case for a new environmental politics that radically reignites the art of speaking truth to power.

Download or read book The Truth About Diseases written by Tihomir Petrov and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-06-27 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Usually, a man creates his diseases. In this book are explained the true causes for the diseases, principles of natural hygienewhich must be kept to prevent diseasesand the way of treatment, if they have occurred. Natural hygiene uses holistic/general way for treatment and maintenance of health. They say that health is the greatest wealth. Usually, we realize the value of something when we lose it. Health is not everything, but everything without health is nothing! Any theory is confirmed or rejected by practice. Think well what is truetheories that are taught in medical universities, which are not based on natural laws, or the theories based on natural laws and obvious facts? If the wrong/false theories, which are taught in the medical universities, that the causes for some diseases are autoimmune, and other diseases are caused by viruses or bacteria, were true, most wild, free animals in nature would also be suffering from the same diseases, from which suffer people. The truth is that very few of these animals get sick, and it is usually due to disposal of poisons in nature by people. The things are not so complicated as the doctors of the official medicine want to convince us. Otherwise, if there were at all live wild animals, most of them would also be ill, even if they had (veterinary) doctors, dentists, and doctors of pharmacy and their poisons called medicines and vaccines. We are creators of our tomorrow, and there is no need to pay to a divinerwhether he is a doctor, a lawyer, a priest, or a bankerto tell us what will happen to us tomorrow. Nothing special will happen. The inevitable will occurwe will reap what we have sown.