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75/100Critics
53/100Scholars
Author:
Ashley Ward
Publisher:
Basic Books
Date:
March 1, 2022
An Australian animal behaviorist takes readers on a wild tour across the globe as he searches for a more accurate picture of how animals build societies. Along the way, Ward shows that the social impulses we've long thought separated humans from other animals might actually be our strongest connection to them.
What The Reviewers Say
Mr. Ward’s The Social Lives of Animals explores, in extensive and often exhilarating detail, the many ways in which animals, like humans, 'hate to be alone'.
Vampire bats 'have each other’s backs', according to one of the extraordinary stories in this fascinating book.
Ward has a good eye for details...and he writes vividly.
Apart from all we learn from this fascinating book about the myriad ways in which different species of animals survive and thrive by living together, The Social Lives of Animals is a reminder of why the damage to human lives caused by the COVID-19 pandemic goes way beyond the physical impact of the highly contagious virus.
