Animalkind: Remarkable Discoveries About Animals And Revolutionary New Ways To Show Them Compassion
- Author: Ingrid Newkirk
- Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Duration: 9:12:26
Synopsis
The founder and president of PETA, Ingrid Newkirk, and bestselling author Gene Stone explore the wonders of animal life with “admiration and empathy” (The New York Times Book Review) and offer tools for living more kindly toward them.
In the last few decades, a wealth of new information has emerged about who animals are: astounding beings with intelligence, emotions, intricate communications networks, and myriad abilities. In Animalkind, Ingrid Newkirk and Gene Stone present these findings in a concise and awe-inspiring way, detailing a range of surprising discoveries, like that geese fall in love and stay with a partner for life, that fish “sing” underwater, and that elephants use their trunks to send subsonic signals, alerting other herds to danger miles away.
Newkirk and Stone pair their tour through the astounding lives of animals with a guide to the exciting new tools that allow humans to avoid using or abusing animals as we once did. Whether it’s medicine, product testing, entertainment, clothing, or food, there are now better options to all the uses animals once served in human life. We can substitute warmer, lighter faux fleece for wool, choose vegan versions of everything from shrimp to marshmallows, reap the benefits of animal-free medical research, and scrap captive orca exhibits and elephant rides for virtual reality and animatronics.
Animalkind provides a fascinating look at why our fellow living beings deserve our respect, and lays out the steps everyone can take to put this new understanding into action.
Chapters
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001 Animalkind Open
Duration: 48s -
002 Animalkind Forward
Duration: 03min -
003 Animalkind Introduction
Duration: 08min -
004 Animalkind Section I Remarkable Discoveries about Animals
Duration: 20min -
005 Animalkind The Mysteries of Navigation
Duration: 51min -
006 Animalkind The Channels of Communication
Duration: 53min -
007 Animalkind The Intricacies of Love
Duration: 01h43s -
008 Animalkind The Joy of Play
Duration: 58min -
009 Animalkind Section II Remarkable Ways We Can Be Kind to Animals
Duration: 07min -
010 Animalkind Scientific Research
Duration: 01h26min -
011 Animalkind Clothing
Duration: 01h08s -
012 Animalkind Entertainment
Duration: 56min -
013 Animalkind Food
Duration: 01h20min -
014 Animalkind Afterword
Duration: 03min -
015 Animalkind Close
Duration: 01min