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A review by pinkpanther
The Unexpected Truth About Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Wild Tales by Lucy Cooke
informative
medium-paced
3.5
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.