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The Unexpected Truth About Animals
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  • Published: 30 November 2017
  • ISBN: 9781473542129
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 10 hr 28 min
  • Narrator: Lucy Cooke
  • RRP: $22.99

The Unexpected Truth About Animals

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2 Nov 2017
Audiobook
30 Nov 2017
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30 July 2018
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In this menagerie of the misunderstood, zoologist Lucy Cooke explores centuries of animals myths, revealing the fascinating and often hilarious truths behind some of the strangest animal theories.

Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Unexpected Truth About Animals, written and read by Lucy Cooke.
History is full of strange animal stories, invented by the brightest and most influential, from Aristotle to Disney, and they reveal as much about us and the things we believe as they do about the animals they misrepresent. We once thought that eels were born from sand, that swallows hibernated under water, and that bears gave birth to formless lumps that were licked into shape by their mothers.

Zoologist Lucy Cooke unravels many such myths, revealing the facts she’s uncovered while sniffing out vultures, snooping on sloths and stalking drunk moose.

The Unexpected Truth About Animals is in equal parts astonishing, illuminating and laugh-out-loud funny. Starring: feminist hyenas; perverted penguins, exploding bats and frogs in taffeta trousers...

'Eye-opening, informative and very funny!' - Chris Packham
  • Published: 30 November 2017
  • ISBN: 9781473542129
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 10 hr 28 min
  • Narrator: Lucy Cooke
  • RRP: $22.99
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About the author

Lucy Cooke

Lucy Cooke is an award-winning broadcaster and filmmaker with a Masters in zoology from Oxford university (where she was tutored by Richard Dawkins).
She began her career working behind the scenes in television comedy but is now an increasingly familiar face on natural history TV, having presented prime time series for BBC, ITV and National Geographic.
She writes for the Telegraph and the Huffington Post. Her only previous book (a picture book about sloths – A Little Book of Sloth) was a New York Times bestseller.

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