Jeff Campbell's favorite nonfiction animal books that make you go holy sh*t!
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Jeff Campbell's favorite nonfiction animal books that make you go holy sh*t!
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I love telling stories that inspire readers to protect our precious world and all our fellow citizens. There isn’t much that’s more important. But I also want to share my wonder and awe about our wildly diverse kin. I’ve written four books of animal science for young adults—Daisy to the Rescue, Last of the Giants, Glowing Bunnies!?, and the latest, Love in Their Hearts. I particularly treasure that book, since it’s a collaboration with ethologist and advocate Marc Bekoff, who first opened my eyes to the fascinating inner lives of animals. Truth is, once we look, we realize we’re surrounded by worlds we can barely imagine.
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Love in Their Hearts
By
Marc Bekoff
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Through moving, surprising, and often joyful true stories, Love in Their Hearts: A Celebration of Animal Emotions and a Guide…
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The books I picked & why
Poking the Squid
By
Perrin Roosevelt Ireland
Why I love this book
Let’s be honest, aren’t we all insanely curious to know how other species do it? Oh, be careful what you wish for.<br>This ribald, sex-positive survey of the erotic, even kinky proclivities of our fellow animals had me in stitches—when it wasn’t blowing my mind.<br>Queer sex? Check. Female orgasms? Check. Literal gender fluidity? Check. Divorce, infidelity, oral sex… turns out, anything humans do, other animals thought of first and sometimes take further. As a bonus: Colorful, playful, graphic-novel-style illustrations mean you don’t need to imagine seahorse sex.
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Poking the Squid
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Perrin Roosevelt Ireland
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Poking the Squid<br>as one of their favorite books, and they share<br>why you should read it.
What is this book about?
For too long, science has ignored and obscured the multiplicity of animal sexual behaviour. With vivid, often funny and always beautiful watercolour illustrations in a work of graphic nonfiction, artist Perrin Roosevelt Ireland examines how animals express and have sex. With the help of her cats Ursula and Pudge, she takes us on a wild biodiversity ride from queerness, infidelity and divorce to consent, sexual cannibalism and sex change. Ireland interviews researchers at the edge of this new science and brings readers along as she learns the latest discoveries. In vivid comics of seahorse dads, polygamous albatross, and gender-fluid barnacles,…
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Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
By
Mary Roach
Why I love this book
I will read anything by Mary Roach because she’s hilarious.<br>But in particular, she’s an expert at uncovering the unexpectedly bizarre, surreal hidden side of any topic: death, astronaut training, digestion, and… human-animal conflicts.<br>Animals do what they do, and many a time, humans want to arrest (and even kill) them for it. And we have tried. For centuries. With wildly uneven results. And with each story of people going to battle—vainly, quixotically—with vandalous seagulls and crows, hungry bears, uninvited elephants, poisonous beans, and home-invading macaques, I think, Holy sh*t!
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Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
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Mary Roach
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Fuzz<br>as one of their favorite books, and they share<br>why you should read it.
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What's to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? Three hundred years ago, animals that broke the law would be assigned legal representation and put on trial. These days, as New York Times best-selling author Mary Roach discovers, the answers are best found not in jurisprudence but in science: the curious science of human-wildlife conflict, a discipline at the crossroads of human behavior and wildlife biology.<br>Roach tags along with animal-attack forensics investigators, human-elephant conflict specialists, bear managers, and "danger tree" faller blasters. Intrepid as ever, she travels from leopard-terrorized hamlets…
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