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How can we give animals the best life–for them? What does an animal need to be happy

In her groundbreaking, best-selling book Animals in Translation, Temple Grandin drew on her own experience with autism as well as her experience as an animal scientist to deliver extraordinary insights into how animals think, act, and feel. Now she builds on those insights to show us how to give our animals the best and happiest life–on their terms, not ours.

Knowing what causes animals physical pain is usually easy, but pinpointing emotional distress is much harder. Drawing on the latest research and her own work, Grandin identifies the core emotional needs of animals and then explains how to fulfill the specific needs of dogs and cats, horses, farm animals, zoo animals, and even wildlife. Whether it’s how to make the healthiest environment for the dog you must leave alone most of the day, how to keep pigs from being bored, or how to know if the lion pacing in the zoo is miserable or just exercising, Grandin teaches us to challenge our assumptions about animal contentment and honor our bond with our fellow creatures.

Animals Make Us Human is the culmination of almost thirty years of research, experimentation, and experience. This is essential reading for anyone who’s ever owned, cared for, or simply cared about an animal.

A Q&A with Temple Grandin, Author of Animals Make Us Human

Q: In Animals Make Us Human, you discuss a wide range of animals, from dogs to pigs to tigers. Which animals do you enjoy studying and working with the most?

A: I’ve worked with cattle the most, so I really enjoy cattle. I always liked to sit in the pen and let the cattle come around me and lick me–they’re really peaceful animals when they’re not afraid. But the thing about cattle is they’re a prey-species animal and they get scared really easily–and I can relate to that because as a person with autism, fear is my main emotion. So I can relate to how cattle are always hypervigilant, looking for rapid movements, looking for little signs of things that might be danger.

Q: How has autism helped you in your work with animals?

A: I’m a total visual thinker. And you’ve got to think about it: animals don’t think in language. If you want to understand animals, you must get away from language. Animals are sensory-based thinkers; they think in pictures, they think in sounds, they think in touches. There’s no other way that their brains can store those memories.

Q: How has your work affected the treatment of animals?

A: I’ve been working on improving the treatment of cattle for years. When I started out in the seventies, people were incredibly rough and abusive with cattle. The thing that kept me going was that there were some really nice people who handled their cattle well, and their cattle had a great life, and so I could see that it was possible to handle animals right. And today many more people are now involved in teaching low-stress stockmanship and good cattle handling. When I started in the early seventies, I was a pioneer in the U.S. on this; nobody else was working on these things.

Q: How will this book be useful to people working with cats and dogs in animal shelters?

A: People often don’t recognize emotions in these animals. I went to a very nice animal shelter recently that had group housing for cats that had tree-like things with platforms and cubbyholes for the cats to get in, and a very astute worker there noticed that you can have a situation where a cat seems very calm in a shelter, but he’s not really sleeping, he’s constantly keeping an eye out for another cat. And people need to watch for that kind of situation, because even though it looks peaceful, that one particular cat that never sleeps is going to be stressed out.

Also at this shelter, I was very pleased that the amount of dog barking was way less, and I think one of the reasons for this is that every day, every dog is taken out for an hour of quality time, playing and being walked and interacting with a person. That’s going to help lower the stress. Dogs need to be taken out every day for quality interaction with a person, exercise, and fun play.

Q: What are the things you really like about creating a book like Animals Make Us Human?

A: I really enjoyed getting into all the neuroscience information. Another thing I talked about in the book are the problems with not having enough people working out in the field to implement things. We’ve got policymakers who never work out in the field, and some of the policies can backfire. We need to have more people working in the field. In the wildlife chapter, I talk about who’s going to be the next Jane Goodall–we need a lot more of that kind of on-the-ground work.

Q: You mention Dr. Nicholas Dodman and some other people in your field. Has anyone in particular been a great inspiration for you?

A: One of my big inspirations when I was starting out was a scientist named Ron Kilgore, who studied sheep handling and sheep behavior. At the same time that I was working on cattle handling in the U.S. in the early seventies, Ron Kilgore was doing the same sorts of things in New Zealand. I discovered one of his papers early on, and that really was an inspiration.

Q:What do you think of the more extreme animal activists?

A: Violence I’m totally against–that’s very counterproductive. All that does is make the animal industry go and get more lawyers and more security systems. Demonstrations–sometimes there may be a place for that. In some situations we might have philosophical differences. I eat meat. I get hypoglycemic if I don’t eat animal protein. But I feel very strongly that we’ve got to give the animals a decent life. A woman working at Niman Ranch said that we’ve got to give animals “a life worth living.” These cattle can have a decent life: the cows and the bulls, out on a ranch eating grass. The calves spend half their lives in a feed yard, but they’re still outside. Another way I look at it is, those cattle would have never been born, would have never existed, but now that we’ve made them exist, we’ve got to give them a decent life.

Q: If you could give your book to one person or one group of people so that they could learn more about animal care, who would that be?

A: I think any kind of person who works with animals, whether it’s a pet owner, a cat owner, people who work with horses, people who work on farms–anyone who works with animals on a daily basis is going to like Animals Make Us Human, and they’re also going to like Animals in Translation.

Q: Proposition 2 in California just passed. Its aim is to reduce the inhumane confinement of farm animals by giving them enough room to stand up, turn around, and stretch. What do you think of this, and what do you think the real effects will be?

A: Veal stalls and sow stalls we need to get rid of, plain and simple. Putting a sow in a box where she can’t turn around for most of her life, that’s absolutely not acceptable. Two-thirds of the public have problems with it. With hens and chickens, that’s a more complicated issue. It’s so much more expensive to put them in systems that are cage-free, and what I’m worried about is the egg industry migrating to Mexico and being a real mess, where we have no controls at all. What people don’t realize is that half of the egg industry is liquid egg, which can be easily shipped in those stainless-steel tanks. It’s the eggs that go into bread, the eggs that restaurants use…And I’m concerned that that might migrate to Mexico.

There needs to be a lot more thought going into how we’re going to implement things. What’s happening in a lot of fields now–with any issue, not just animal issues–is we’re getting more and more policymakers totally separated from the reality of what’s happening on the ground, where ideology takes over from practicality.

Q: What are your future plans relating to animal advocacy? What is the next issue that you would like to tackle?

A: I’m an implementer. Somebody has to work on implementing things. I want to continue working with people on practical guidelines that will result in improvements. I spend a great deal of time working with large meat buyers, because economic forces can often bring about great change. One of the things that should be a major criterion in judging welfare is when there are too many lame animals. And lameness is something I can measure. I want things I can measure. Too often we’ve got our best and brightest going into policy, and they haven’t done anything practical. All I can say is, whatever field you’re in, whether it is animals or something else, you need to get out in the field and find out what’s going on in the trenches, so that you don’t make policies that might have unintended, bad consequences. Get away from the lobbyists, get away from all that, get out and visit farms, visit ranchers, because with a lot of issues, the truth is somewhere in the middle.

In the Shadow of Man by Jane Goodall book review

In the Shadows of Man

by Jane Goodall

Ahh, the classic Jane Goodall book, In the Shadow of Man.  This was Jane’s first mainstream book that was published back in 1971.  The subject of this book?  Studying the wild chimpanzees and the life she lived while observing them.

In the Shadow of Man captures animals as emotional beings, something that had rarely been done. Goodall tells the story of the “F” family of chimpanzees and follows other families with many photos to go along with the stories.  It is fun to read about the chimps playing and fighting with the babboons followed by seeing a photo of a baboon charging a chimp while the chimpanzee throws a rock to defend itself.

There are many fantastic photos of Jane Goodall and the chimpanzees.  With 64 total pages of black and white photos you can really understand the life Goodall and her photographer ex-husband Hugo Van Lawick lived while.

The Ten Trusts by Jane Goodall

The Ten Trusts

by Jane Goodall

Jane Goodall steps away from her chimpanzee research and teams up with Marc Bekoff to present ideas, stories and life experiences to show how humans need to better their lives to help save animals and our earth.

To celebrate Jane Goodall’s new book, Hope for Animals and Their World, i will be reviewing some of my favorite Jane Goodall books.  Goodall teamed up with Marc Bekoff, author of many animal books including Smile of a Dolphin which i recently reviewed.

About The Ten Trusts

Goodall and Bekoff have set forth 10 trusts that humans must follow as the custodians of our planet.  What this means is that as humans it is time for us to notice the destruction we are doing to the planet and all it’s beings and change our ways.  The team presents the ten trusts that if followed, we will surely live life harmoniously with all beings.

The overall message is obvious, be good to all animals, plants and humans.  If everyone follows the ten trusts i am sure the world would be a better place.  In fact, i feel this book is so important, i see it as equal to John Lennon’s amazing song, Imagine.

The First Trust:  Rejoice That We Are Part of the Animal Kingdom

Jane Goodall has helped prove that humans are indeed animals by studying the Chimpanzees at Gombe National Park.  In her early observations, she noticed Chimpanzees making and using tools which redefined the deffinition of what it is to be human.  If you have ever watched any of the great apes (chimpanzees, orangutans, gorillas) you may have noticed how similar we humans are to these astonishing animals.   To me, it is quite obvious that those animals are our closests living relatives.

Did you know that if a human is in need of a blood transfusion, they could use the blood from a chimpanzee as long as the blood types matched?  We commonly swap diseases with the chimpanzees.  We share about 98.7 percent of our genes with chimpanzees.  Chimpanzees can not communicate with spoken word like humans, but they can in other ways:  kissing, embracing, holding hands, tickling, swaggering, throwing objects, shaking a fist, punching, hugging, comforting and so on.  Chimpanzees can form hunting parties to hunt monkeys, they can crack open nuts with stones, learn American Sign Language and learn to paint.

All of those things are so very human like, but isn’t it amazing that chimpanzees can do the same things as us?  The first trust shares many stories and facts similar to this to help you understand how intelligent and loving animals can be so that once we understand them, we will want to save them.

The Ten Trusts To Live By

Here i will give you the Ten Trusts that we should all follow.  Please buy the book to read more about each one:

1. Rejoice That We Are Part of the Animal Kingdom
2. Respect All Life
3. Open Our Minds, in Humility, to Animals and Learn From Them
4. Teach our Children to Respect and Love Nature
5. Be Wise Stewards of Life on Earth
6. Value and Help Preserve the Sounds of Nature
7. Refrain From Harming Life in Order to Learn About It
8. Have the Courage of Our Convictions
9. Praise and Help Those Who Work For Animals and The natural World
10. Act Knowing we are Not Alone and Live With Hope

Hope for Animals and Their World Book Review

Jane Goodall’s new book, Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink Goodall shares fascinating survival stories about endangered species whos populations are now being regenerated thanks tot he help of zoos across the world.

Scroll to the bottom of the review to preview Jane Goodall’s new book.

With the help of zoos, Jane Goodall and the Cincinnati Zoo Director Thane Maynard share 34 animal stories that describe how amazing groups of dedicated people prevent the extinction of animals by working hard to save the animals they love.

These uplifting and hopeful stories will touch your heart and show you that humans can in fact make a difference in this world and they may inspire you to get out and help, which is Jane Goodall’s ultimate goal.

Example of one of the Animal Stoires: Golden Lion Tamarins

Golden Lion Tamarins at the National Zoo in DC

Below i will present to you one of the animal stories on the rare and beautiful Golden Lion Tamarins that are found in South America.  The small monkeys  were almost extinct a few decades ago but thanks to the National Zoo’s involvement along with other zoos and institutes around the world they helped save the species.

Jane Goodall visited the National Zoo back in 2007 and saw the Golden Lion Tamarins for the first time face to face and was marveled by their beauty, describing them in the following way “I was enchanted.  They are like living jewels of the deep forest with a lion-like mane.  As i watched them, slightly apprehensive with so many strangers in their new home, i felt a surge of gratitutude for all the hard work and tears that had prevented their extinction.”

Free Range Golden Lion Tamarins at the National Zoo in D.C.

The Golden Lion Tamarins at the National Zoo in Washington D.C. is a fascinating story in which i got to witness for myself.  In 2007 the zoo let a few of the families roam freely in a small patch of forest on the grounds of the National Zoo.  This would allow them to become familiar with tree top travel and living before being released in their future home in Brazil.

The innovative decision to let the small monkeys range freely on the grounds of the National Zoo was a bold and successful move, and the separate families established their own small territories that were about 100 square meters in range, something they would have done in the wild.

Hope for Animals and Their World by Jane Goodall

I am lucky enough to live close to the National Zoo and got to see the Golden Lion Tamarins roam the grounds of the zoo.  I spotted them between Sea Lions and Siamangs.  They were very high in the trees and it was great to see free range monkeys in North America!  The following year one of the Golden Lion Tamarin families gave birth to twins in the small mammal house in which i watched for many months.  The baby Golden Lion Tamarins were so much fun to watch and photograph, they had so much energy and loved to explore their territory.  I often saw the young Golden Lion Tamarins trying to play with and groom the Sloth couple, they seemed to really be fascinated with the big furry slow guys!

There are many animal stories like this in which innovative and brilliant people decide to try to save the animals they love.

Not only are there many great animal stories, Jane Goodall and Maynard give a great appendix in the back of the book on different ways you can help your favorite animals that you read about in the book.  This section gives you the information on where the best place to go to take action on the situation by donating and volunteering to the right organization, what products to stay away from and so much more!

Preview Jane Goodall’s Newest Book

Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape by Frans de Waal

Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape by Frans de Waal is the best photograph and information book on the Bonobo Chimpanzees that i have seen so far.  Frans de Waal is my favorite author (besides Jane Goodall of course) covering the chimpanzees and bonobos.

For those of you who are not that familiar with the wonderful Bonobos, i would really like to recommend this book.  This is a large book with almost every page having full color photos.  Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape does a great job of introducing the bonobos and comparing them to chimpanzees, orangutans and gorillas.  Also, they take a look at early humans, most notably “Lucy” the Australopithecus, and you can see a few similarities between the bonobos and Lucy.

There is a fascinating Interview with Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, who worked with the most famous Bonobo, Kanzi.  In fact, there are many Kanzi references in this book, so if you are a fan of the great language learning ape, you should check this book out.

Many photos show the bonobos walking upright, something that is very easy for them to do.  This allows the bonobos to move about using only their legs, leaving their hands free to carry food and other things like bonobo made tools.

The Forgotten Ape tells of the history of the Bonobos. In the 1920’s people believed that no apes lived south of the Zaire River, however in 1927 the Tervuren Museum in Belgium received a bonobo skull from a town south of the Zaire which lead to the discovery of the great apes 2 years later.

Sex is the glue of Bonobo Society. Many people call the bonobos the “make love not war” chimpanzee because of their frequent use of sex.  The bonobos are the ultimate love makers in the animal kingdom (besides humans of course) because they will copulate in many different positions, including face to face. The orangutans are also very sexy, i have witnessed Orangutans mating for minutes on end in a strange position, male on his back and female sitting on top with her back towards the male.  What made this experience even stranger is the fact that the male was staring at myself the whole time.

Who should buy this book? If you are a lover of the great apes, particularly the chimpanzees and bonobos, this book is a must have.  If you are interested in learning about our early human relatives, the bonobos are probably the closest things to a living relative.  With full color photos and jam packed with amazing information, this is the ultimate bonobo book!

For further reading, please check out all of the animal books that i have reviewed.  Also please feel free to check out some of my animal pictures that i have taken!

For the Love of Animals Book

For the Love of Animal by Kathryn Shevelow is a touching book on the early animal rights movement in England during the 18th and 19th century.  Kathryn has put together a number of hard-to-read stories of humans treating animals like crap and how a few great people stood up for the rights of animal.

The wonderful thing about this book is the fact that Kathryn Shevelow is a specialist in eighteenth century British literature and culture and a professor at the University of California, San Diego and has written other books on the topic of 18th century England so you know she knows what she is writing about.

During the 18th century, animal abuse was very common and very people understood or cared about animals.  Things started to change when people started to take in pets to have them live with them, instead of using animals just for food, products and work.  When people started to live with and care for the animals, people started to realize that maybe it was not such a good idea to treat animals so poorly.

Kathryn Shevelow’s For the Love of Animals – The Rise of Animal Protection Movement is a must have for animal rights activists and the hardcore animal lovers to fully understand how it all started.  This is obviously a great book for animal and history buffs, something that am quite happy to admit to being!

For further reading, please check out all of the animal books that i have reviewed.  Also please feel free to check out some of my animal pictures that i have taken!

A Chimp in the family book by Vince Smith

A Chimp in the Family by Vince Smith tells the story of Sophie, a baby Chimpanzee born at the Chester Zoo in England, who was abandoned by her mother and was raised by humans along side a human baby.

The infant chimp was taken to the author’s home and hand-reared by Vince Smith, something that is very common when chimpanzees and other great apes do not want to raise their children for themselves.  After six months of living with the young Sophie, Smith’s wife gave birth to Oliver, Sophie’s future playmate!

Vince tells the amazing story of how the upbringing of Olver and Sophie were remarkably similar.

What is great about this book is the fact that this happened very recently and the father was a very educated and impressive person, which means that there is plenty of very usefull scientific information gathered and shared in this book.  This practice of raising a human and chimpanzee baby side by side has been done before in the past, especially in the 1960’s, but alot has changed since the 60’s.  Jane Goodall had changed the deffinition of man at the end of the 60’s and by the time Vince Smith raised Sophie he had so much more of a foundation to really study the chimpanzee.

Another great thing about Chimp in the Family is the fact that Vince moved his family and Sophie to Africa to give the chimpanzee a better life!  There are amazing stories of trying to un-humanize Sophie and Vince does an amazing job to show Sophie what real chimpanzees do in the wild, including having to show her how to hunt for ants and termites.

If you are a chimpanzee lover, you really should check this book out.  Vince Smith has turned out to be quite the successful animal researcher and now is the regional director for the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, managing their mountain gorilla conservation program for Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

For further reading, please check out all of the animal books that i have reviewed.  Also please feel free to check out some of my animal pictures that i have taken!

The Naked Ape is a classic book on the origins of humans, written by Desmond Morris.  In this 1969 classic, Morris looks at human beings as animal-like creatures, something that was a very strange thing at the time.  The Naked Ape gives insight on man’s beginnings, sex life, habits and our bond to the animal kingdom.

This is a very adult book, very graphic and actually quite fun; by the funnest and most entertaining book i have seen so far.  The chapter on sex is fascinating.  I have spent hours at zoos and seen all different kinds of animals mating but it always fascinates me to see how other animals procreate and it’s qutie obvious the great apes (Chimpanzees, Gorillas and Orangutans) are the animals that mate most like us.

After the acknowleedgements and introduction, there are 9 main chapters in the Naked Ape:

1. Origins
2. Sex
3. Rearing
4. Exploration
5. Fighting
6. Feeding
7. Comfort
8. Animals
9. Appendix: Literature
10. Bibliography

Desmond Morris graduated from college in 1951 with a first class degree in zoology and went on to work at the Lond Zoo, heading the mammal department.  Not only is Morris a zoologist and author, he is also a surrealist painter.  He has also worked with chimpanzees in the 1950’s, training them to also paint.

This book is a reminder to humans that we are, in fact, just an animal.  We are a special animal in the family of the great apes, evolving from the same great apes millions of years ago.  Humans have evolved into an amazing being with many faults, but this ground breaking book was one of the first to really look at humans as animals and compare our complex lives with those other animals that we share this earth with.While this book is dated, it is still a very interesting and entertaining read.

For further reading, please check out all of the animal books that i have reviewed.  Also please feel free to check out some of my animal pictures that i have taken!

Smile of a Dolphin not only covers dolphins but many other animals. Find out how expressive animals really are!

Remarkable Accounts of Animal Emotions

If you have ever wondered if animals truely can express emotions to their fellow beings, this book will do a great job of convincing you that they do.  The Discovery Channel backed this book and the editor, Marc Bekoff, found more than fifty experts on animals to present observations of animals evoking some kind of emotional response to such situations as losing a child, confronting an enemy, choosing a mate, or being tricked, chastised, challenged, played with, or picked on.

There are many famous “animal people”, one of them is Sue Savage-Rumbaugh of Georgia State University.  You may remember her name if you read my previous review on the book about Kanzi the Bonobo Chimpanzee who had learned to communicate with humans by learning with Lexigrams.  Another contributor, Frans de Waal, is also an author which i have wrote about, writing the “Tree of Origin” book which is a must read for evolution/animal lovers.   And i am sure you have heard of Jane Goodall, who adds two amazing stories, one of which is included in it’s entirety below. Along with these and other amazing people, there are over 120 color photographs of various animals obviously showing some kind of emotion.

How the Book is Presented

The book is a collection of very short stories, usually around 2 pages long, which makes this a GREAT coffee book or bathroom book (eww).  There are a total of four chapters:

1. Chapter One: Love
2. Chapter Two: Fear, Aggression, and Anger
3. Chapter Three: Joy and Grief
4. Chapter Four: Fellow Feelings

My favorite section of the book is the last chapter on Fellow Feelings, which tells 16 stories that include the Goodall, Waal and Savage-Rumbaugh entries.  There is one touching story by Jane Goodall that i would like to share in it’s entirety (please note that all the stories are not as sad as this, i just wanted to share this because of how emotional it is).

A Sorrow Beyond Tears
by Jane Goodall

Chimpanzees, differing from us genetically by only just over one percent, can’t be said to weep, for they don’t shed tears.  Yet they show behavior that’s associated with sadness, depression, and grief in humans: soft whimpering, crying sounds, listlessness, lack of appetite, avoidance of others.  And they show those behaviors int he same kind of situations that we do.

In 1972, in Africa’s Gombe National Park, the almost fifty-year old matriarch of our study community died.  Flo, as she was called, was with her eight-and-a-half-year-old son, Flint.  He should have been able to look after himself, easily.  Yet he’d developed a strange, abnormal dependance on his old mother, probably because she hadn’t had the energy to wean him properly.  All day he sat near her body at the edge of a small, fast flowing stream.  Occasionally he approached her, inspecting her carefully, moving all around, then grooming her a little.  He pulled her dead hand twoard him, whimpering; in life she had responded, grooming him in return.  Then he moved a few yards away to sit, hunched and motionless, eyes staring.  As darkness fell, Flint climbed into a tree and made a small nest – to spend the first night of his life alone.

On the second day Flint heard his brother calling in a nearby group, and he joined them.  Some of his depression lifted for a while, but after a few hours he suddenly left the other chimps and hurried back to the place where Flo had died.  There he sat alone, eyes staring into space.  Later he climbed slowly into a tall tree, walked along a branch, and stood staring at a large empty nest – the one that Flo had made and that he and she had slept in the previous week.  What was he thinking?  He climbed down and lay on the ground, staring at nothing.

Over the next three weeks, Flint became increasingly lethargic.  He stopped eating, and he avoided other chimps, huddling in the vegetation close to where he’d last seen Flo.  His eyes sank deep into the hollow sockets of his skull; his movements were like an old man’s.  The last short journey he made, with many pauses, was to the very place where Flo’s body had lain.

There he remained, sometimes staring and staring into the water, until he died, just three and a half weeks after losing Flo.  He died of grief.

This is my Favorite Animal Book Yet!

Out of all the animal books i have reviewed, The Smile of a Dolphin is by far my favorite book so far.  The main reason this is such an amazing book is the fact that it is a large book, which means large photos can be included.  Another nice feature is that is a collection of short stories from such amazing contributors as Jane Goodall and Frans de Waal, along with many more.  Not only that, the stories are just so amazing and emotional, i really reccomend everyone should check this book out.

For further reading, please check out all of the animal books that i have reviewed.  Also please feel free to check out some of my animal pictures that i have taken!

Breaking the Codes of Animal Language

Tim Friend (what a cool name, huh?) wrote this amazing book on animals and their use of communication using the latests scientific discoveries and by using simple animal observation.  Although most animals do not communicate like humans by vocalizing (in fact, chimpanzees rarely use vocalization for communication, and they are our closests living relatives), we humans share a common form of communication with almost all animals, body language.

The world holds over 10 million species, all of them using their own evolved and specialized language to let others know what they are thinking, feeling, needing or wanting.  What Tim Friend states in this book is that all animals and humans can easily understand each other because every creature on earth “speaks” a common nonvebal language, a language that has developed through millions of years of evoltuion.

Speaking of evolution, i was reading a National Geographic last night and they showed the story of horses evolving.  It all started 50 million years ago in North America.  About one million years ago, some horses moved across the bearing land bridge into Europe and Asia, and those groups slowly moved into Africa to make the zebras.  Sadly, in about 10,000 bc all of the horses in North America went extinct, but how do we still have wild horses you may ask?  In the 16th century, Spain brought over horses on their boats and a few escaped, repopulating america with wild horses once again!

Back to the book..  Tim Friend collects a number of amazingly gifted scientists in the field of animal communication to show you a range of animals in action and explain why and how they use signals to communicate.

For further reading, please check out all of the animal books that i have reviewed.  Also please feel free to check out some of my animal pictures that i have taken!