Animals Behaving Badly: Boozing Bees, Cheating Chimps, Dogs with Guns, and Other Beastly True Tales

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Linda Lombardi Kevin Sherry

Animals Behaving Badly

Boozing Bees, Cheating Chimps, Dogs with Guns, and Other Beastly True Tales

Linda Lombardi, Kevin Sherry

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Perigee Books,U.S.
04 October 2011

Humour

There's a lot that animals don't want you to know, and the better

their public image, the worse their secrets are- gang-rapist dolphins;

lazy, infanticidal lions; and, of course, our own dogs, who eat our

money, set our houses on fire, and in more than one case, actually

shoot their owners with guns.

Animals Behaving Badly shows that animals are just like us-

gluttonous, selfish, violent, lustful, and always looking out for

number one. Using anecdotes from the news and from scientific research,

Linda Lombardi pokes fun at our softhearted preconceptions about

animals, makes us feel a little better about humanity's basest

impulses, and painlessly teaches us a bit more about our furry and

feathered friends.

You'll learn-

Bees love alcohol- even, says one researcher, more than college

students

Pandas enjoy pornographic movies-they're particularly aroused by the

soundtrack-and macaques will pay with juice to look at dirty pictures

A rabbit who lives in a pub in England is addicted to gambling with a

slot machine

African elephants raised by teenage mothers form violent youth gangs

By: Linda Lombardi
Illustrated by: Kevin Sherry
Imprint: Perigee Books,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 190g
ISBN: 9780399536977
ISBN 10: 0399536973
Pages: 212
Publication Date: 04 October 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

As a child growing up in the Bronx, Linda Lombardi liked to play with a basket full of plastic animals instead of human dolls. Later in life, she gave up a tenured position as a college professor to take a zookeeping job. Formerly the pets and animals columnist for the Associated Press and author of the mystery The Sloth's Eye, she has spent much of her life either slaving over animals or writing about how great they are. This book is her revenge. Visit her website and the Animals Behaving Badly blog at www.lindalombardi.com

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