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Animal Societies

How Co-Operation Conquered the Natural World

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Animal Societies

By: Ashley Ward
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In our modern world of social media and relentless technological advancement, we are more connected than ever before. Though the scale of this connectivity is new, the instinctive desire to gather with our own kind has ancient roots. We can see the origins of our own societies in the social behaviour of the animals that share the planet with us. What’s more, human characteristics such as altruism, empathy, leadership and language can also be witnessed among animal groups.

Join Biologist Ashley Ward as he takes listeners into the intimate worlds of social animals. Journeying from Aysgarth Falls to the Great Barrier Reef, it becomes clear that animals are not so far removed from us as we might imagine. In a time where humans are struggling to navigate cityscapes, isolation and a loneliness epidemic, Ward shows us that studying the social behaviour of animals offers insights valuable in their own right as well as a window into the evolutionary basis of our own species.

©2020 Ashley Ward (P)2020 Audible, Ltd Anthropology Inspiring

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Wonderful book! Found the insect section incredible. Funny down to earth narrator. Highly recommend. The only negative point is the unnecessary transitional music that was played at the end of chapters. As I listen at night in bed i round the screaming chimpanzees ALOT at 11pm! Would be better without

Better than expected

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i'm absolutely gripped, is like david attenborough meets game of thrones, but better, especially the chapter on ants which is my favourite

my new top book of all time

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Anyone with a love for the natural world would do well to consider this book!

Enthralling and timely read

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Brilliant book and great narration, Ashley Ward has it all! If you like you're Attenborough you'll love this - Krill and Cockroaches have never been more fascinating.

Immensely Interesting!

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The narrator did not grab me first off but I absolutely loved this. It is fascinating and so accessible to non-experts. Can’t recommend this highly enough.

Read it twice in a row - wanted to fully appreciate it

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A really fascinating insight into various animal behaviours, as they relate to the advantages and disadvantages of society, that only serves to reinforce our similarities to our animal cousins and our own place within the animal kingdom.

in the end, we're all animals

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Mind opening, fascinating, intriguing, who knew krill could be so interesting, and that was only chapter one!

Magnificent

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Thoroughly enjoy and enlightening, from the beginning to the end. Will listen to it again just to be amazed all over again!!!

Thoroughly enjoyable

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This book only gets better as you listen until you really don't want it to end. It describes animal behaviour and progresses up to primates. I didn't want it to end and I only wish it had more references to its sources so I could read more.

Amazing compilation of animal behaviour stories

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I really enjoyed this book. It is so interesting and lots to learn about even if you know quite a bit of biology or natural history. It is written in a most engaging way too, and read by the author which conveys his own fascination with the subject.

Fascinating

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