Atlas of Poetic Zoology

Emmanuelle Pouydebat (Permanent Researcher, CNRS), Julie Terrazzoni, Erik Butler (Translator (French and German to English))

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MIT Press
07 May 2019

Zoology: Vertebrates; Wildlife: general interest

Series: The MIT Press

A catalog of wonders, from walking fish to self-medicating chimpanzees.

This Atlas of Poetic Zoology leads readers into a world of wonders where turtles fly under the sea, lizards walk on water, insects impersonate flowers, birds don't fly, frogs come back from the dead, and virgin sharks give birth. Animals, writes Emmanuelle Pouydebat, are lyric poets; they discover and shape the world when they sing, dance, explore, and reproduce. The animal kingdom has been evolving for millions of years, weathering many crises of extinction; this book allows us to draw inspiration from animals' enduring vitality.

Pouydebat's text, accompanied by striking color illustrations by artist Julie Terrazzoni, offers a catalog of wondrous beings. Pouydebat describes the African bush elephant-the biggest land mammal of them all, but the evolutionary descendant of a tiny animal that stood less than fifty centimeters (nineteen inches) high sixty million years ago; the scaly, toothless pangolin, the world's most endangered mammal-and perhaps its most atypical; the red-lipped batfish, which walks, rather than swims, across the ocean floor; and the great black cockatoo, a gifted percussionist. Chimpanzees, she tells us, self-medicate with medicinal plants; the jellyfish, under stress, reverts to juvenile polyp-hood; and the sweetly named honey badger feeds on reptiles, termites, scorpions, and earthworms.

Pouydebat, a researcher at the French Museum of Natural History, and Terrazzoni capture the astonishment promised by any excursion into nature-the happiness that comes from watching a dragonfly, spider, frog, lizard, elephant, parrot, mouse, orangutan, or ladybug. It's the joy of witnessing life itself. We need only open our eyes to see.

By: Emmanuelle Pouydebat (Permanent Researcher CNRS)
Illustrated by: Julie Terrazzoni
Translated by: Erik Butler (Translator (French and German to English))
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 267mm, Width: 191mm,
ISBN: 9780262039970
ISBN 10: 0262039974
Series: The MIT Press
Pages: 152
Publication Date: 07 May 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Emmanuelle Pouydebat is a permanent researcher employed by the CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research), working at the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris.

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Atlas of Poetic Zoology

Emmanuelle Pouydebat (Permanent Researcher, CNRS), Julie Terrazzoni, Erik Butler (Translator (French and German to English))

$42.99

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