Altruistic armadillos, zenlike zebras : a menagerie of 100 favorite animals.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [405]-424).

The wondrous, remarkable, and outlandish activities of animals have long captured our curiosity, and no one has better explored or illuminated our fascination than Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, bestselling author of the groundbreaking Dogs Never Lie About Love and When Elephants Weep. Massons genuine passion for our two- and four-legged, invertebrate, flippered, and finned friends has turned into his lifes calling-and earned him a reputation as one of our most provocative authorities on animal behavior. Now Masson shares his vast knowledge in this comprehensive and charming volume featuring one hundred of his favorite animals. Drawing upon this affable experts own experience and extensive research, Altruistic Armadillos, Zenlike Zebras offers fascinating facts, colorful anecdotes, and surprising tidbits on familiar creatures (bottlenose dolphins, hummingbirds, kangaroos) as well as lesser-known, yet equally entrancing critters (bonobos, kakapos, and wombats). Inside youll discover that armadillos are the only mammals who routinely give birth to genetically identical quadruplets frogs can mate for months at a time koalas have tiny brains, possibly because they sleep for twenty hours a day a newborn kangaroo is the size of a small bean lobsters, if allowed to, can live for nearly a century the manatee is one of the most gentle and inoffensive of animals