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“Like The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben's 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
Through vivid stories of devoted pigs, two-timing magpies, and scheming roosters, The Inner Life of Animals weaves the latest scientific research into how animals interact with the world with Peter Wohlleben's personal experiences in forests and fields. We learn that horses feel shame, deer grieve, and goats discipline their kids. Ravens call their friends by name, rats regret bad choices, and butterflies choose the very best places for their children to grow up.
In this captivating book, Peter Wohlleben follows the hugely successful The Hidden Life of Trees with insightful stories into the emotions, feelings, and intelligence of animals around us. Animals are different from us in ways that amaze us—and they are also much closer to us than we ever would have thought.
“Wry, avuncular, careful and kind. . . Each story adds to a widening vision of intelligence, emotion and relationship.”—The Guardian
Published in Partnership with the David Suzuki Institute
Price: $17.95
Publisher: Greystone Books
Imprint: Greystone Books
Publication Date:
18 May 2021
Trim Size: 7.50 X 5.25 in
ISBN: 9781771648028
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
“A treat for animal lovers of all stripes.”
—Kirkus starred review
“With the same charm and clarity that drew so many readers to The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben has produced another gem. I found delight on every page, thanks to the author’s rare skill at blending scientific discoveries with his own wealth of insightful personal experiences. Read this book, and never again doubt that we share the Earth with other beings living rich and colorful lives.”
—Jonathan Balcombe, author of What a Fish Knows
“Peter Wohlleben’s convincing, highly readable stories about free-living and domestic animals show there’s much overlap between how humans and other animals experience bonding, loss, and the great, shared themes of life.”
—Carl Safina, author of Beyond Words, What Animals Think and Feel
“Wry, avuncular, careful and kind, Wohlleben guides us from one creature to the next. ...Each story adds to a widening vision of intelligence, emotion and relationship.”
—The Guardian
“Like The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben's 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
“Wohlleben offers an insightful consideration of the emotional and cognitive lives of animals.”
—Booklist
“Animal lovers everywhere will be enthralled by The Inner Life of Animals. Find out what squirrels, deer, and other animals really do out in the woods.”
—Temple Grandin
“Animals is a natural follow-on to 'Trees' and just as beautifully questions human assumptions about nature. ...Wohlleben’s words are bound to touch even the animal-emotion skeptic.”
—Washington Post, Jennifer S. Holland, author of Unlikely Friendships
“The Inner Life of Animals is an important reminder that while we surely are different from other animals, the similarities in our cognitive, emotional, and moral lives are not only surprising and daunting, but very real. And, we must use this information on their behalf in an increasingly human-dominated world.”
—Marc Bekoff, author of The Emotional Lives of Animals and The Animals' Agenda
Peter Wohlleben is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Hidden Life of Trees. and its follow-ups, The Inner Lives of Animals and The Secret Wisdom of Nature. His books for children include the middle-grade nonfiction book, Can You Hear the Trees Talking? and the picture book, Peter and the Tree Children. He is a natural storyteller who writes on ecological themes, and manages a municipally owned, environmentally friendly woodland in Germany.
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson is the author of numerous books, including the New York Times bestsellers When Elephants Weep and Dogs Never Lie about Love. He is fascinated by the richness of the emotional world of animals and by what animals can teach us about ourselves.
Jane Billinghurst’s career has been in book publishing in the UK, the US, and Canada, as an editor, publisher, writer, and translator. She is the translator of the international bestseller The Hidden Life of Trees by German forester Peter Wohlleben.
Foreword by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Introduction
1 Selfless Mother Love
2 Instinct—A Second-Rate Emotion?
3 Loving People
4 Anybody Home?
5 Pig Smarts
6 Gratitude
7 Lies and Deception
8 Stop, Thief!
9 Take Courage!
10 Black and White
11 Cold Hedgehogs, Warm Honey Bees
12 Crowd Intelligence
13 Hidden Agendas
14 Simple Sums
15 Just for Fun
16 Desire
17 Till Death Do Us Part
18 What’s in a Name?
19 Grief
20 Shame and Regret
21 Empathy
22 Altruism
23 Upbringing
24 Getting Rid of the Kids
25 Once Wild, Forever Wild
26 Snipe Mess
27 Something Special in the Air
28 Comfort
29 Weathering the Storm
30 Pain
31 Fear
32 High Society
33 Good and Evil
34 Hey, Mr. Sandman
35 Animal Oracles
36 Animals Age, Too
37 Alien Worlds
38 Artificial Environments
39 In the Service of Humanity
40 Communication
41 Where Is the Soul?
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index