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Raised by Animals : How dolphins bond, why meerkats babysit, and other lessons from families in the wild - Jennifer L. Verdolin

Raised by Animals

How dolphins bond, why meerkats babysit, and other lessons from families in the wild

By: Jennifer L. Verdolin, Marc Bekoff (Foreword by)

Paperback | 1 April 2017

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From pregnancy to infancy and the teenage years to leaving the nest, Jennifer L. Verdolin, PhD, brings a thoughtful perspective to a universal experience. Raised by Animals looks at families in the animal kingdom as a way to gain insights into human relationships.

As an animal behavior expert and evolutionary biologist, Dr. Verdolin weaves together the fascinating research into animals with human behavior studies, biology, and more. Find out why newly hatched graylag geese babies imprint on anything that moves and why imprinting between infants and parents is so important. Hear about Mexican free-tailed bat mothers who can identify their pups from a sea of millions of others. And compare that to the surprising information that within 48-hours of birth, mothers can identify their baby's cry with nearly 100 percent accuracy. And then there are mother squirrel monkeys that soothe their crying baby monkeys by picking them up-demonstrating that attachment-style parenting has evolutionary roots.

Dr. Verdolin injects a biological dimension into many complex social phenomena, touching upon topics as disparate as adoption, single parenting, the first day of school, and the child that just won't leave home.

In Raised by Animals, animal lovers and science buffs can explore the fascinating, humorous, and even shocking ways human biology has made us not altogether different from the animals covered in the book.

About the Authors

Jennifer L. Verdolin, PhD, is an animal behavior researcher specializing in social and mating behavior and a scholar in residence at Duke University. Her work has been featured on NPR and in Wired, Scientific American, and many other media outlets. Her weekly radio segment, “Think Like a Human, Act Like an Animal” is a regular feature on the nationally syndicated D.L. Hughley Show (broadcast on 43 stations in 17 states). Dr. Verdolin also writes a Psychology Today blog. Her first book, Wild Connection, explores what animal mating can teach us about human relationships.

Marc Bekoff, PhD,is an animal behavior expert specializing in animal minds and compassionate conservation. He has written numerous books including The Emotional Lives of Animals, Why Dogs Hump and Bees Get Depressed, and Rewilding Our Hearts. A professor emeritus of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado–Boulder, he writes a Psychology Today blog called Animal Emotions and his work has been featured in The New York Times, Scientific American, and more.
Industry Reviews
"Fascinating observations. . . . [Verdolin] compares animal behavior to human behavior and explains how we can use this information to be better parents."--Washington Post

"A stunningly informative guide to child rearing."--HuffPost

"[Verdolin] blends memoir, self-help, and popular science, and readers get a taste of hard science with her extensive references to the research literature. . . . Moms and dads--those open to different perspectives on bringing up baby--will find this an enlightening read, as will those who enjoy popular science."--Library Journal

"A rich source of anecdotes that are scattered over the animal kingdom."--Choice

"I've read A LOT about animals, but rarely have I encountered science presented so invitingly--and so brimming with fresh insight. I learned something new on almost every page. It's an especially perfect book for expecting parents and those of young children."--Jeffrey Masson, New York Times-bestselling author of When Elephants Weep

"In this terrific read, Verdolin beautifully weaves the science and stories of our own family lives with those of animals we once saw as 'other, ' reminding us that we aren't the only species for whom family is everything."
--Jennifer S. Holland, New York Times-bestselling author of the Unlikely Friendships series

"Combining a sumptuous array of examples from nature with personal experiences, Jennifer Verdolin delivers a lively tour through the rich landscape of raising young. The take-home lesson for me was clear: human-animal parallels abound in child-rearing styles, and we are by no means the gold standard."--Jonathan Balcombe, author of What a Fish Knows

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