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Discover the astonishing, often bizarre, true stories of the animal kingdom in Lucy Cooke’s The Unexpected Truth About Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Wild Tales. As a celebrated British zoologist, author, and TV presenter, Cooke reveals how thinkers, writers, and scientists throughout history have misunderstood creatures ranging from the sloth to the hyena. She explores their strange behaviors—including sexual habits—and the outlandish experiments conducted in pursuit of the truth. The result is a collection of tales where reality is far stranger than myth.
From the sloth’s alien-like tree-dwelling existence to the bat’s desire to be a bird, and the eel’s mysterious lifecycle that baffled scholars for two millennia, Cooke argues that evolution has played magnificent tricks on us. “Life takes brilliant, alien forms,” she writes, “and even the simplest are hard to comprehend.” This book is a modern bestiary backed by solid evidence from an Oxford-trained zoologist, yet written with unmatched humor, as praised by Richard Dawkins. Now translated into 18 languages, it’s a wild, eye-opening journey through the natural world.