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020			_a9781541600836 _qhardcover
020			_a1541600835 _qhardcover
035			_a(OCoLC)1257292176
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092			_a591.5 _bW256
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100	1		_aWard, Ashley, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe social lives of animals / _cAshley Ward.
250			_aFirst U.S. edition.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bBasic Books, Hachette Book Group, _c2022.
264		4	_c©2022
300			_av, 372 pages ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction - Brown ale and cannibalism -- Honey, I fed the kids (and now I'm going to explode) -- From ditches to decisions -- Clusterflocks -- Getting into mischief -- Following the herd -- Blood's thicker than water -- Codas and cultures -- War and peace -- Epilogue.
520			_a"A rat will go out of its way to help a cold, wet stranger. Cockroaches pass down generational knowledge, hyenas form personal relationships with members of different species, and ants farm fungus in cooperatives. Why do we continue to believe that life in the animal kingdom is ruled by competition? Why do we believe that humans are special for their ability to live and work together, or worse, that human society is somehow "unnatural"? In The Social Lives of Animals, animal behavior expert Ashely Ward embarks on a global search to reveal the surprising, delightful, and occasionally downright strange ways that animals build and manage societies, with both members of their own species and others. Ward studies how shoals of krill search for food by plying them with beer, visits baboons in Namibia that work for hire as goatherds, wades through a literal river of shit to study how groupthink spreads among sticklebacks, and swims with a family of sperm whales that adopted an orphaned dolphin. By studying animal societies on their own terms, we can see clearly that human societies may not be so unique. Rather, human social life may be just one version of a basic animal instinct. Biology has, since Darwin, tried to understand species by studying how they compete. But in the end, The Social Lives of Animals shows that you can often learn more about animals, including humans, by studying how they work together than by how they tear each other apart"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aAnimal communities.
650		0	_aSocial behavior in animals. _983261
650		0	_aAnimal behavior. _922746
655		7	_aInformational works. _2lcgft _9222299
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