The unexpected truth about animals. Parasite ant, love hippo, hyena feminist and other wild stories from the wild

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An amazing collection of stories about animals that tend to focus on their strange behavior, including sexual behavior. In her book, translated into 18 languages, the famous British writer, zoologist and TV presenter Lucy Cook tells what exactly the thinkers, writers and scientists of the past thought about these animals, what they were wrong about, what outlandish experiments they performed, and what the truth really is. The truth often turns out to be more incredible than the most incredible fictions and myths. “We are accustomed to viewing the animal kingdom through the prism of our rather limited existence. The sloth's arboreal lifestyle makes it look like an alien and one of the most misunderstood animals in the world, but it's far from alone in this category. Life takes on a brilliant myriad of alien forms, and even the simplest of them are difficult to understand. Evolution has played many great pranks, creating incredible creatures in unpredictable ways, and has provided few clues to explain its actions: mammals like bats who want to be birds; birds like penguins who want to be fish; fish like the eel with a mysterious life cycle that has kept the search for invisible gonads going on for two thousand years. Animals are reluctant to reveal their secrets." (Lucy Cook) "This book is a modern bestiary, backed by the remarkable evidence you would expect from an Oxford zoologist. And besides, it is written with unsurpassed humor! (Richard Dawkins)

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Publication language: Russian

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