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A review by smiley_c
Animal Languages by Eva Meijer
3.0
Me right now: thank goodness I finally finish reading this.
Ok, I admit when I first started it I was so interested. The intro is indeed promising. How animals communicate with each other, how we can try and talk to them... Even more fascinating real life cases of this interspecies communication! Wow. And things were interesting at first, but then --
I'M NOT EXPECTING SO MUCH PHILOSOPHY!
Gosh the middle chunk was so lengthy and real hard to digest. If you're interested in the ethics and arguments like animal rights, what is exactly language, what is grammar -- then this is the book for you. But for me I felt like being promised a pet for Christmas and getting a cardboard dog finger puppet instead (not that it happened before, mind).
Ok, I admit when I first started it I was so interested. The intro is indeed promising. How animals communicate with each other, how we can try and talk to them... Even more fascinating real life cases of this interspecies communication! Wow. And things were interesting at first, but then --
I'M NOT EXPECTING SO MUCH PHILOSOPHY!
Gosh the middle chunk was so lengthy and real hard to digest. If you're interested in the ethics and arguments like animal rights, what is exactly language, what is grammar -- then this is the book for you. But for me I felt like being promised a pet for Christmas and getting a cardboard dog finger puppet instead (not that it happened before, mind).