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Die erstaunliche Wahrheit über Tiere: Was Mythen und Irrtümer über uns verraten
Lucy Cooke
4.23 AVERAGE
318 reviews for:
Die erstaunliche Wahrheit über Tiere: Was Mythen und Irrtümer über uns verraten
Lucy Cooke
4.23 AVERAGE
funny
informative
reflective
medium-paced
funny
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informative
medium-paced
An incredible book for anyone interested in animals and how we have come to understand them. Full of humour and really enjoyable to read. I read the conclusion about 10 times because it was so great!
Informative and funny. The author selects several types of animals and goes through the history of how they were discovered and thought to live throughout the years. Especially interesting to see how animals were anthropomorphized by scientists early on. Dispels myths about some animals and highlights some of my favorites like the sloth and penguins.
Charming, funny, and full of interesting animal facts that I used to shock my mother all weekend long. It was lovely.
Everything that you thought that knew about cute penguins, adorable pandas and the utterly chilled out sloths, was probably wrong. When you see photos or videos of animals doing human type things we tend to put human personalities and our morals on animals and it really doesn't work. They have their own tales to tell us and in a lot of cases the truth is much much stranger than the fiction.
Cooke is the founder of the Sloth Appreciation Society and they make an appearance in here as she dispels the myths about them being lazy and explains the crucial part they play in the ecosystems in the forests that they live in. We will learn why vultures crap on their own legs, which animals partake in prostitution and necrophilia. How pandas are not as sex adverse as we think that they are and what happens when they stop being cute. Lots of animals were considered to appear from out of the mud at the bottom of ponds, including frogs and eels and swallows were though to stay at the bottom of ponds over winter and appear each spring. Migration was only properly discovered when a stork turned up with a spear from an African warrior in its neck. If you want to know why an African Hippo is making itself at home in Columbia and what they are actually closely related to and also to find out if moose are actually drunken reprobates then this is a good place to start.
I am not sure that science books are meant to make to laugh out loud and chuckle away to yourself, but this did. Cooke dispels lots of myths and uncovers secrets about her selected animals so of which have been suppressed for almost 100 years. It is an enjoyable popular science book that still has its foundations in serious research in seeking to understand just what makes animals do what they do. 3.5 Stars
Cooke is the founder of the Sloth Appreciation Society and they make an appearance in here as she dispels the myths about them being lazy and explains the crucial part they play in the ecosystems in the forests that they live in. We will learn why vultures crap on their own legs, which animals partake in prostitution and necrophilia. How pandas are not as sex adverse as we think that they are and what happens when they stop being cute. Lots of animals were considered to appear from out of the mud at the bottom of ponds, including frogs and eels and swallows were though to stay at the bottom of ponds over winter and appear each spring. Migration was only properly discovered when a stork turned up with a spear from an African warrior in its neck. If you want to know why an African Hippo is making itself at home in Columbia and what they are actually closely related to and also to find out if moose are actually drunken reprobates then this is a good place to start.
I am not sure that science books are meant to make to laugh out loud and chuckle away to yourself, but this did. Cooke dispels lots of myths and uncovers secrets about her selected animals so of which have been suppressed for almost 100 years. It is an enjoyable popular science book that still has its foundations in serious research in seeking to understand just what makes animals do what they do. 3.5 Stars
A Fascinating, mind-blowing hilarious insight into nature
Animals are glorious - there is such variety among us all, and yet sometimes, that variety is not seen as a positive. As Lucy Cooke points out in her book - creatures like the sloth and the bat, and even the panda are not what we assume them to be. And in every case, they are better.
This book is a wild ride. Cooke gets into the past studies of these animals, and includes drawings that are...hideous? Weird? Crazy? In most cases, all of the above. So little understanding, and so much myth has accompanied the hippo and the penguin. There are crazy sex tales (penguins are not generally monogamous), strange facts (the hippo's closest relative is...the whale), and bizarre stories of competitions between early scientists (who would be the first to create a humanzee). Yet Cooke also gives us plenty of actual facts about these amazing creatures, and shows how each is special and unique and deserves its place. She makes a valid point that we cannot afford to continue making mistakes with our wildlife - or we will no longer have them.
Overall, this was simply a fascinating book. There were parts that had me laughing, and others where I'm pretty sure my eyes about popped out of my sockets. Parts where I wanted to slap some of those old scientists, and others where I was just in awe about the amazing creatures we have on this earth. Those same creatures that we take for granted or ridicule based on our own perspective - without realizing just how perfect they are for *what* they are. Cooke has shown them for what they are - amazing, bizarre, and special - and worthy of our time and our respect.
This book is a wild ride. Cooke gets into the past studies of these animals, and includes drawings that are...hideous? Weird? Crazy? In most cases, all of the above. So little understanding, and so much myth has accompanied the hippo and the penguin. There are crazy sex tales (penguins are not generally monogamous), strange facts (the hippo's closest relative is...the whale), and bizarre stories of competitions between early scientists (who would be the first to create a humanzee). Yet Cooke also gives us plenty of actual facts about these amazing creatures, and shows how each is special and unique and deserves its place. She makes a valid point that we cannot afford to continue making mistakes with our wildlife - or we will no longer have them.
Overall, this was simply a fascinating book. There were parts that had me laughing, and others where I'm pretty sure my eyes about popped out of my sockets. Parts where I wanted to slap some of those old scientists, and others where I was just in awe about the amazing creatures we have on this earth. Those same creatures that we take for granted or ridicule based on our own perspective - without realizing just how perfect they are for *what* they are. Cooke has shown them for what they are - amazing, bizarre, and special - and worthy of our time and our respect.
This book was fascinating. Humorous, entertaining, everything I wish nonfiction could always be. Highly recommend.