# The Unexpected Truth About Animals

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- Book: [The Unexpected Truth About Animals](https://www.bookquiver.com/lucy-cooke/the-unexpected-truth-about-animals) ([The Unexpected Truth About Animals.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/lucy-cooke/the-unexpected-truth-about-animals.md))
- Authors: [Lucy Cooke](https://www.bookquiver.com/lucy-cooke)
- Publisher: Black Swan
- ISBN: 978-17-8416-190-3
- Pages: 480
- Published: 2018-05-31
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Shortlisted for the 2018 Royal Society Investment Science Book Prize 'Endlessly fascinating.' - Bill Bryson 'Eye-opening, informative and very funny!' - Chris Packham 'Well-informed and downright funny' - Richard Dawkins History is full of strange animal stories invented by the brightest and most influential, from Aristotle to Disney. But when it comes to understanding animals, we’ve got a long way to go. Whether we’re watching a viral video of romping baby pandas or looking at a picture of penguins ‘holding hands’, we often project our own values – innocence, abstinence, hard work – onto animals. So you’ve probably never considered that moose get drunk and that penguins are notorious cheats. In The Unexpected Truth About Animals Zoologist Lucy unravels many such myths – that eels are born from sand, that swallows hibernate under water, and that bears gave birth to formless lumps that are licked into shape by their mothers – to show that the stories we create reveal as much about us as they do about the animals. Astonishing, illuminating and laugh-out-loud funny.