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Die erstaunliche Wahrheit über Tiere: Was Mythen und Irrtümer über uns verraten
Lucy Cooke
4.23 AVERAGE
317 reviews for:
Die erstaunliche Wahrheit über Tiere: Was Mythen und Irrtümer über uns verraten
Lucy Cooke
4.23 AVERAGE
I learned so many cool and interesting facts about lesser studied animals because of the way the author presented them. She has remarkable wit and pacing throughout the book.
She did expose some uncomfortable truths about our own arrogance towards and exploitation of animals in the process. It's hard to believe what some people have done "in the name of science"; smh.
She did expose some uncomfortable truths about our own arrogance towards and exploitation of animals in the process. It's hard to believe what some people have done "in the name of science"; smh.
informative
medium-paced
It's a good book packed with information, which is obviously great.
It addresses one animal and the misconceptions surrounding it in each chapter, taking relevant discourses into related topics or other species suffering the same fate as the chapters protag. (Animals featured: eel, beaver, sloth, hyena, vulture, bat, frog, stork, hippo, moose, panda, penguin, and chimpanzee).
The reasons I didn't love the book were probably related to my expectations. I wanted more facts about the animals lives and habits in general. However, the focus is on the myths surrounding the animals, how they came to be historically and how they were upheld, e.g., due to being used as vehicles for religious moral education. Certainly interesting as well, but a few too many historical reports for my taste.
I also did not like the authors humor. The jokes were cheap and simply not funny, if you understand animal behaviour and do not agree with the strangeness attributed to much of it.
It addresses one animal and the misconceptions surrounding it in each chapter, taking relevant discourses into related topics or other species suffering the same fate as the chapters protag. (Animals featured: eel, beaver, sloth, hyena, vulture, bat, frog, stork, hippo, moose, panda, penguin, and chimpanzee).
The reasons I didn't love the book were probably related to my expectations. I wanted more facts about the animals lives and habits in general. However, the focus is on the myths surrounding the animals, how they came to be historically and how they were upheld, e.g., due to being used as vehicles for religious moral education. Certainly interesting as well, but a few too many historical reports for my taste.
I also did not like the authors humor. The jokes were cheap and simply not funny, if you understand animal behaviour and do not agree with the strangeness attributed to much of it.
adventurous
funny
informative
inspiring
3.9 ☆
Good book!
Lucy Cooke writes awesome facts about the animals, presenting the research of multiple people across the centuries (from Aristotle to the Spanish knight and cronist Oviedo), combined with a bit of humor and personal anecdotes (my favorite chapters were the Hyena one and the Bat one
Good book!
Lucy Cooke writes awesome facts about the animals, presenting the research of multiple people across the centuries (from Aristotle to the Spanish knight and cronist Oviedo), combined with a bit of humor and personal anecdotes (my favorite chapters were the Hyena one and the Bat one
4.5.
Full of both awesome animal and behavioral information, as well as ridiculous stories of the researchers and "researchers" that studied them, this was a delightful dive into the weird.
Full of both awesome animal and behavioral information, as well as ridiculous stories of the researchers and "researchers" that studied them, this was a delightful dive into the weird.
funny
informative
lighthearted
medium-paced
Just couldn't get into it. It wasn't as interesting to me as I was expecting 😅
I found this book very informing and interesting. It gives a look into they science history of zoology, and how things like religion formed the views on some animals.
It gives some fun stories, but there is also a look into how the welfare of animals used for testing, wasn't always something that was cared about.
It gives some fun stories, but there is also a look into how the welfare of animals used for testing, wasn't always something that was cared about.
informative
funny
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
I really enjoyed reading this book, it is very informative and the information are presented in a very interesting way with a lot of funny insight from the author. I think I really learned a lot of useful and maybe not so useful facts about many animals and it also made me think a lot about the way we humans observe the world and other living things inside it.