Synopsis: Mary Roach meets Bill Bryson in this "surefire summer winner" (Janet Maslin, New York Times), an uproarious tour of the basest instincts and biggest mysteries of the animal world Humans have gone to the Moon and discovered the Higgs boson, but when it comes to understanding animals, we've still got a long way to … Continue reading The Truth About Animals by Lucy Cooke
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Review: What It’s Like to Be a Dog by Gregory Berns
Synopsis: Does your dog really love you? Neuroscientist Gregory Berns used an MRI machine to find out. What is it like to be a dog? A bat? Or a dolphin? To find out, neuroscientist Gregory Berns and his team began with a radical step: they taught dogs to go into an MRI scanner--completely awake. They … Continue reading Review: What It’s Like to Be a Dog by Gregory Berns
Review: The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman
Synopsis: Birds are astonishingly intelligent creatures. In fact, according to revolutionary new research, some birds rival primates and even humans in their remarkable forms of intelligence. Like humans, many birds have enormous brains relative to their size. Although small, bird brains are packed with neurons that allow them to punch well above their weight. In The … Continue reading Review: The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman