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Bats Sing, Mice Giggle: The Surprising Science of Animals' Inner Lives
Bats Sing Mice Giggle The Surprising Science of Animals' Inner Lives Author:Karen Shanor, Jagmeet Kanwal "Amazing, moving and enlightening. Bats Sing, Mice Giggle presents the latest findings on the intimate lives of animals with great elegance. I recommend it wholeheartedly." Larry King"Did you know that spiders taste with their feet, that a decapitated cockroach can live for two weeks, that a certain type of parrotfish wraps itself in a sort of f... more »oul-smelling snot before taking a nap, and that ants play? I didn't until I read Bats Sing, Mice Giggle." New Scientist"Before reading this book, I was grounded in the richness of our evolutionary heritage, full of love for animals and playful humans, but with what I now recognize was a homo sapiens oriented view of our interconnectedness with all living creatures...But in the delightful process of discovering the secret skills of our living cousins, so crisply and clearly described in this book, each filled with their quirky spectacular capacities (which we can envy but not duplicate) that sense of our place in the scheme of things has been infused with...joyful awe." Stuart L. Brown MD, Founder and President, The National Institute for PlayBats Sing, Mice Giggle is the culmination of many years of cutting-edge scientific research that reveals how animals have secret, inner lives of which until recentlyalthough animal lovers will have instinctively believed itwe have had little proof.The authors show how animals communicate; how they warn and help each other in times of danger; how some problem-solve even more effectively than humans; and how they build, create, and entertain themselves and others.Karen Shanor and Jagmeet Kanwal reveal the sleep patterns of dolphins, who go to sleep in only one half of their brains at a time, and they show how schools of electric fish generate and use complex electric fields to determine their location within the group. They show how« less