Sanoisin 3,5. Ei hirveesti mitään uutta verrattain Wohllebenin aiempiin, mutta ihan mukava paketti.

Pairs well with "Eating Animals" by Jonathan Saffron.
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I didn't realize this was in translation when I picked it up, and not only is it in translation, but the narrator is British, so there's so much in terms of language going on here that it was hard not to enjoy.

This is really a book about love for animals, empathy for them, and a desire to understand why they act as they do. It talks about how smart ravens and pigs are, how dumb squirrels are, and makes acute observations about our own relationships with animals of all kinds. There's no science here, so don't go in expecting that. It's more of a read for animal lovers.

A couple of points near the end of the book I took away and will be thinking about for a while: 1. why is it that we, as people, have tried to train animals to speak our language when we could use our capacities to speak theirs and learn that way? and 2. I love the discussion of whether animals have souls in the dictionary definition of the word (which is compared with the religious definition of the word). I'm atheist, but I strongly believe in the idea that all of us are part of an interconnected web of beings, and thus, animals have feelings and needs and desires and souls like we as humans do. They're just different. I appreciated how Wohllenben's book really hinges on these ideas.

Maybe not worth a purchase, but definitely worth reading from the library. I snagged it under $10 on audio, which was worth my 7 hours of enjoyment.
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Start with the "Hidden Life of Trees."

pisano jednostavnim, popularnim stilom, autor povezuje iskustvo promatranja i skrbi za životinje na svojoj farmi sa znanstvenim spoznajama o emocijama i svijesti životinja, a povremeno ubaci i koju osobnu, neutemeljenu pretpostavku. po struci šumar, čovjek s iskustvom u življenju s prirodom, ne pretjerano literarno vješt, ali dovoljno čitak da te drži uz knjigu i da ti na pristupačan način otkriva manje znane pojedinosti iz životinjskog svijeta. pomalo zbrčkano i površno za moj ukus, stavlja temelj za vlastito daljnje istraživanje ove teme.
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This is a great book for animal-lovers (like I am), but it isn't as non-fiction as I had hoped. The author quotes a lot of research, but he doesn't really explain the research in depth. I am not a science-buff or anything, but I like my research well researched and explained to me. And I felt like this lacked in that area unfortunately.