The Other Animals
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The Other Animals

By: Lulu Miller, Shruti Swamy, Kelly Weinersmith, R. Eric Thomas, Ken Lui, Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Kaeli Swift, Max McClure
Narrated by: Lulu Miller, Shruti Swamy, Kelly Weinersmith, R. Eric Thomas, Ken Lui, Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Kaeli Swift, Max McClure
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[Explicit Content] In The Other Animals, a worm goes through a breakup, a vulture contemplates the act of killing, a whale falls in love with a song, and more.

This funny, moving collection of eight stories - written by a diverse crew of scientists, literary writers, and comics, and informed by science - explores what animal perspectives can show humans about the world we all share. It includes stories by Daniel Mallory Ortberg (""Texts from Jane Eyre""), R. Eric Thomas (""Elle""), Ken Liu (""The Paper Menagerie""), Lulu Miller (""Invisibilia""), Kelly Weinersmith (""Soonish""), Shruti Swamy (""O’Henry Award Winner""), Max McClure (""Grist""), and Kaeli Swift (""Audubon"").

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Episodes
  • Ep. 9: Rectangles

    Ep. 9: Rectangles
    Jan 16 2020

    A studious crow struggles to understand the human rituals taking place in her territory, the Great Stone Garden.
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    31 mins
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  • Ep. 8: Ptarmigan Tunnel

    Ep. 8: Ptarmigan Tunnel
    Jan 16 2020

    A marmot wakes up from hibernation and discovers that his home life and habitat have been subtly rearranged.
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    15 mins
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  • Ep. 6: The Moon Carver

    Ep. 6: The Moon Carver
    Jan 16 2020

    A scorpion’s quest to be closer to the solitary music of the moon is interrupted by a group of cacophonous giants.
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    29 mins
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Fresh and engaging. This set of short stories holds plenty of surprises, wit and biology too. Recommended.

A very enjoyable collection of stories

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I really enjoyed Listening to the stories they were all nice, It is absolutely worth your time.

FABULOUS

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Whoever decided that each story needed muddy, dull background music should have their ass kicked. I could not listen to any of these stories because the background music is intrusive and muddies the sound but adds nothing.

Muddy sound

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Excellent collection of short stories. Some are really inventive, with no attempts to give an animal perspective about the human world. The micro lives of a symbiotic worm and the water striders were really impressive. It created a whole universe within the world we live in. There were a couple of stories which used animals to look at human lives. This was a bit uneven. However, the last story in the collection about the crows was excellent. Gently heartbreaking.

Strange, fascinating and underrated

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I really loved couple of these, and a couple of others did nothing for me. But as they're all quite short, definitely worth listening to them all to find the ones that appeal to you.

A couple of these are really amazing

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