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The Unexpected Truth About Animals

By: Lucy Cooke
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Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Unexpected Truth About Animals, written and read by Lucy Cooke.

History is full of strange animal stories, invented by the brightest and most influential, from Aristotle to Disney, and they reveal as much about us and the things we believe as they do about the animals they misrepresent. We once thought that eels were born from sand, that swallows hibernated underwater, and that bears gave birth to formless lumps that were licked into shape by their mothers.

Zoologist Lucy Cooke unravels many such myths, revealing the facts she's uncovered while sniffing out vultures, snooping on sloths and stalking drunk moose.

The Unexpected Truth About Animals is in equal parts astonishing, illuminating and laugh-out-loud funny. Starring: feminist hyenas; perverted penguins, exploding bats and frogs in taffeta trousers....

©2017 Lucy Cooke (P)2017 Random House Audiobooks Animals Biological Sciences Earth Sciences Nature & Ecology Outdoors & Nature Science Natural History Funny

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"Eye-opening, informative and very funny!" (Chris Packham)
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Let me start by saying that I love the contents of this book and am going to buy it for my Kindle. I can't listen to it. I tried, and listened to 6 out of 15 chapters but the narration is horrible. At times it's fine but then the narrator starts emphasising every second word and gets very high pitched. I was constantly adjusting the volume but have given up.

Great book but dreadful narration

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