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The Inner Life of Animals

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9781784705954

  • Length: 288  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 18mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 202g

  • RRP: £9.99

The Inner Life of Animals

  • Surprising Observations of a Hidden World

Can horses feel shame? Do deer grieve? Why do roosters deceive hens?

We tend to assume that we are the only living things able to experience feelings but have you ever wondered what’s going on in an animal’s head? From the leafy forest floor to the inside of a bee hive, The Inner Life of Animals opens up the animal kingdom like never before. We hear the stories of a grateful humpback whale, of a hedgehog who has nightmares, and of a magpie who commits adultery; we meet bees that plan for the future, pigs who learn their own names and crows that go tobogganing for fun. And at last we find out why wasps exist.

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9781784705954

  • Length: 288  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 18mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 202g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • Always fascinating… Wry, avuncular, careful and kind, Wohlleben guides us from one creature to the next

    Richard Kerridge, Guardian

  • Wohlleben presents short chapter in bite-sized portions, so the reader has a constant sense of learning something new almost with every page ... The formula is provably winning. I still felt I was on a robust learning curve as subjects as diverse as motherly love, gratitude, deception, desire, shame and knowledge of good and evil were explored one by one ... fascinating

    Katharine Norbury, Observer

  • Wohlleben is connecting with something big here… He truffles up some wonderful animal facts, too… Wohlleben’s empathy with animals can be touching and illuminating

    James McConnachie, Sunday Times

  • Entertaining and enthusiastic

    Tim Smith-Laing, Daily Telegraph

  • The Inner Life of Animals will rock your world. Surprising, humbling, and filled with delight, this book shows us that animals think, feel, and know in much the same way as we do -- and that their lives are, to them, as precious as ours are to us.

    Sy Montgomery, author of THE SOUL OF AN OCTOPUS

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About the Author

Peter Wohlleben

Peter Wohlleben spent over twenty years working for the forestry commission in Germany before leaving to put his ideas of ecology into practice. He now runs an environmentally friendly woodland in Germany, where he is working towards the return of primeval forests, as well as caring for both wild and domestic animals. Wohlleben has been celebrated for his distinctive approach to writing about nature; he brings to life groundbreaking scientific research through his observations of nature and the animals he lives amongst. He is also the author of international bestsellers including The Hidden Life of Trees and The Inner Life of Animals.

Peter Wohlleben

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Podcasts

Do bees plan for the future?

Authors Stephen Moss and Peter Wohlleben discuss the strange and wonderful inner life of robins, crows and horses we might not be able to see from a glance in this episode of The Vintage Podcast...

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