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276 reviews for:
The Secret Life of Animals: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discovering a Hidden World
Peter Wohlleben
3.68 AVERAGE
276 reviews for:
The Secret Life of Animals: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discovering a Hidden World
Peter Wohlleben
3.68 AVERAGE
I was such a huge fan of Wohlleben's The Hidden Life of Trees, I was hesitant to read this tome at first. Considering how thoroughly he brought trees' senses to life, I worried that TILOA would be as transformative. Would I be able to eat meat after reading it? Would I be able to put my dog behind a fence?
The Inner Life of Animals doesn't have the weight of Wohlleben's earlier work. It is really a collection of personal anecdotes about animals that Wohlleben has cared for, and how they demonstrate emotions and senses that some might ascribe only to humans.
Animal lovers will love this book. (I plan to buy it for my favorite animal-lover.) But it isn't as ground-breaking as his earlier book, which I selected as my favorite read of 2017.
The Inner Life of Animals doesn't have the weight of Wohlleben's earlier work. It is really a collection of personal anecdotes about animals that Wohlleben has cared for, and how they demonstrate emotions and senses that some might ascribe only to humans.
Animal lovers will love this book. (I plan to buy it for my favorite animal-lover.) But it isn't as ground-breaking as his earlier book, which I selected as my favorite read of 2017.
Zawsze staram się mieć przynajmniej jeden audiobook pod ręką, żeby w czasie gotowania czy ćwiczeń móc szybko czegoś posłuchać. Przy okazji tej książki, niejednokrotnie żałowałam, że sos do makaronu już się ugotował i czas na jedzenie.
"Duchowe życie zwierząt" to fenomenalna opowieść o przeróżnych zwierzętach, które autor miał przyjemność obserwować w swojej leśniczówce na przestrzeni wielu lat. Bije od Wohllebena miłość i szacunek do zwierząt, więc tym bardziej miło się słuchało o jego anegdot i obserwacji. Dodatkowo, dla mnie ta książka była tym bardziej ciekawa, że opisywana w niej fauna jest mi bardzo dobrze znajoma - sikorki, kruki, konie, motyle, sarny, muszki owocówki - doskonale znam każde z nich i dzięki temu, dowiadywanie się nowych informacji o nich było dla mnie ciekawsze, niż słuchanie o np. albatrosach czy antylopach.
Serdecznie tę pozycję polecam w zasadzie każdemu i myślę, że ta książka może stanowić świetny prezent.
"Duchowe życie zwierząt" to fenomenalna opowieść o przeróżnych zwierzętach, które autor miał przyjemność obserwować w swojej leśniczówce na przestrzeni wielu lat. Bije od Wohllebena miłość i szacunek do zwierząt, więc tym bardziej miło się słuchało o jego anegdot i obserwacji. Dodatkowo, dla mnie ta książka była tym bardziej ciekawa, że opisywana w niej fauna jest mi bardzo dobrze znajoma - sikorki, kruki, konie, motyle, sarny, muszki owocówki - doskonale znam każde z nich i dzięki temu, dowiadywanie się nowych informacji o nich było dla mnie ciekawsze, niż słuchanie o np. albatrosach czy antylopach.
Serdecznie tę pozycję polecam w zasadzie każdemu i myślę, że ta książka może stanowić świetny prezent.
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I loved this🫶
I learned so much, and I know if I reread this I will absorb so much more😭😍
And when I become a Biologist I hope I can help to answer some of the questions🤭🫡💪
I learned so much, and I know if I reread this I will absorb so much more😭😍
And when I become a Biologist I hope I can help to answer some of the questions🤭🫡💪
overall, i really enjoyed this book. i love animals and just observing them in general.
i never gave a whole lot of thought into topics of whether they feel pain, fear, love, and empathy, and other human feelings, and this book did a great job in stirring those thoughts and giving me perspective.
it’s disheartening to think about how we treat animals, especially in the meat industry knowing that they feel fear and pain.
i felt enchanted by a lot of the anecdotes and research studies, and although i knew a decent amount of the topics in the book, i still learned new things.
i always like reading or watching documentaries about animals because i’m always curious on what is going on inside my dog’s head. and i’d like to better understand my best little companion.
i will say the author extrapolates a lot and definitely found stories and research that backed his narrative.
i never gave a whole lot of thought into topics of whether they feel pain, fear, love, and empathy, and other human feelings, and this book did a great job in stirring those thoughts and giving me perspective.
it’s disheartening to think about how we treat animals, especially in the meat industry knowing that they feel fear and pain.
i felt enchanted by a lot of the anecdotes and research studies, and although i knew a decent amount of the topics in the book, i still learned new things.
i always like reading or watching documentaries about animals because i’m always curious on what is going on inside my dog’s head. and i’d like to better understand my best little companion.
i will say the author extrapolates a lot and definitely found stories and research that backed his narrative.
Lu en parallèle avec la version anglaise (audiolivre) - super intéressant de voir le processus et les choix de traduction (qui divergent beaucoup parfois), d'apprendre autant de vocabulaire spécifique.
// Merlin Sheldrake's Entangled Life (on Fungi)
// Merlin Sheldrake's Entangled Life (on Fungi)
There is nothing new here for most people who keep up with animal science, but the author once again comes off as arrogant and preachy.
Not at all as captivating as his brilliant first work, The Inner Life of Trees.
A lot of conjecture and anecdotal evidence. A fun read, but now necessarily a convincing read.
I like the idea of this book. I wish the “evidence” was more scientific.