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The Inner Life of Animals
- Love, Grief, and Compassion: Surprising Observations of a Hidden World
- Narrated by: Mike Grady
- Series: The Mysteries of Nature Trilogy, Book 2
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Categories: Politics & Social Sciences, Sociology
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Publisher's Summary
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.
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, his latest 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.
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- Adam Clarke
- 2019-04-02
So Awesome, Enjoy It
Excellent delivery of some great narrative for animal behaviour, communication and how we humans can coalesce with animals on Earth. I’m choosing to use it as a call to action to remember that animals are here with us, not competing against us and we should respect each creature as it deserves. Perhaps you can consider that too.
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- NePatsGirl
- 2019-01-07
Not as good as hidden life of trees
Didn’t enjoy this as much as his book on trees. Starts off interesting but soon his anti hunting, leftist conservationist comes out and I found it distracting. Understandable that if the author is Writing of communication etc Amongst the animal kingdom he will need to draw comparisons with human - perhaps I am just ready for this yet.... would much rather hear about the hidden life of trees
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- Margaret-Ann
- 2018-02-22
Changed my mind on the life of an animal.
I'll never be the same. I've always suspected that animals had feels. I was raised in a home where they were thought to be dispensible. To cry over the loss of a pet was weakness and unnecessary. That was very wrong.
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- Dave G Smith
- 2020-12-30
Pease Read.
Always interesting. Always compassionate. Aways though provoking. This book is an important tool for journey into self improvement.
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- naomi
- 2020-07-08
I love these books
if this dude can make me alright with ticks then he truly is a magician with words
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- Heather
- 2020-05-02
Wonderful Book!
Fabulous listen. Extremely enlightening to educate myself on the different lives of animals and comparisons/differences with trees and humans. FANTASTIC!
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- Sometimes.i.write.reviews
- 2019-03-27
lots of good points and Information
lots of good points and information but I kinda struggled to get into it at some parts. interesting information that you dont reaaaalllly think about
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- Amazon Customer
- 2017-11-14
I don't usually write reviews but..
I really loved this one! Sometimes when I'm making dinner or doing stuff around the house, I turn on Planet Earth in the background just for something to listen to (when I don't have an audiobook I want my kids to overhear). This really reminded me of Planet Earth, without the visuals of course. The narrator was very calming but also kind of jolly?- in a David Attenborough sort of way. Sometimes I kind of zone out on non-fiction books, but the subject was intriguing enough with lots of personal anecdotes that helped to hold my attention.
I've added his other book to my wishlist now!
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- margaret angel jablonski
- 2018-04-20
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Thank you! This book was amazing. Listened to it on a car trip. And everyone was grumpy about audio book. But after a rest stop break they asked how much longer we had on the book. They wanted to finish it! Finally an audiobook that was a great experience for my teen son! The narrator is a new favorite!!
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- ian meadows
- 2018-07-26
Thankful for this presentation of a sometimes sensitive issue
I appreciated the way Wohlleben shared his observations in an educational, not preachy style. My hope is that people besides animal lovers will listen to this and consider the reality of a diet based on the suffering of animals (factory farms).
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- donna
- 2019-01-17
Great book
I have learned so much about animals from this audio book. I can listen to the reader all day long. His voice is so soothing, I do listen at night to go to sleep. I leave the audio book on all night long. I actually sleep better with great information and a soothing voice.
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- Darwin8u
- 2020-01-04
Animals are People Too!
"He is writing not as a scientist but as an observant animal lover." - Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, introduction to Inner Life of Animals description Peter Wohlleben, who brought us the 'The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World' is back with the Inner Life of Animals. My same critiques of his last book are still here. I think Peter tends towards a heavy anthropomorphism when dealing with both trees and animals. I get it still. It is hard to view other species outside of our own viewpoint. In his enthusiasm FOR trees and animals, he wants to give us a reason to love them. We naturally love ourselves, so why not talk about how animals share common traits with man? But I think that can be a dangerous precedent. That said, Wohlleben is a natural observer. And his enthusiasm is a delight. This book was just not nearly as smooth or as surprising and delightful as the Hidden Life of Trees. Still good, just not great.
5 people found this helpful
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- Mancina115
- 2019-04-27
Wonderful
Some books add to your life by widening your understanding of your relationship to the world, in this case animals, who share the planet with us. This book does just that. I believe I can be a better human after listening to this audio book.
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- Jonathan
- 2018-01-19
Not Hidden Life of Trees
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I loved the hidden life of trees and was very excited to read Wohlleben's next offering. This book is more a collection of anecdotes from Peter's life in a forest lodge. Its a pleasant book, but the topic is too broad and the evidence he presence is anecdotal. Hidden life of trees is an excellent book, this one you could skip.
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- Gina Carr
- 2019-01-09
Loved it! fantastic insights
I love the way the author weaves his personal experiences with scientific studies to give us an insider's view of what animals are thinking and feeling. Must read/listen..
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- Michael A. Williams
- 2018-03-22
A good read
I was expecting awe and wonder after reading The Hidden Life of Trees. This book is still a beautiful and thoughtful reflection that asks one to open up his/her mind and grow. This one was good; the other was amazing! Thanks for another wonderful book!
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- Jessey
- 2020-12-03
A very hard read. I couldn't finish it.
The author is very well intentioned but the cruelty and ugliness involved in this is more than I can handle. Nature is cruel and people are cruel. It's a fact. We have plenty of evidence of that in our everyday lives, and I don't want to read a book that puts it in my face so graphically. I applaud what the author is trying to do, but I can't stand to read the rest of it. Not only does he talk about the cruelty of animals toward other animals but the scientific experiments are brutal and unforgivably mean cruel. I don't feel that we have the right to knowledge if we have to put animals through that kind of torture. What does that make us?