EAN: 9781472966926

AESOPS ANIMALS - JO WIMPENNY KARTONIERT (TB)

Turns a critical eye on Aesop's Fables to ask whether there is any scientific truth to Aesop's
portrayal of his animals. Despite originating more than two-and-a-half thousand years ago 
Aesop's Fables are still passed on from parent to child  and are embedded in our collective
consciousness. The morals we have learned from these tales continue to inform our judgements 
but have the stories also informed how we regard their animal protagonists? If so  is there any
truth behind the stereotypes? Are wolves deceptive villains? Are crows insightful geniuses? And
could a tortoise really beat a hare in a race? In Aesop's Animals  zoologist Jo Wimpenny turns
a critical eye to the fables to discover whether there is any scientific truth to Aesop's
portrayal of the animal kingdom. She brings the tales into the twenty-first century 
introducing the latest findings on some of the most fascinating branches of ethological
research - the study of why animals do the things they do. In each chapter she interrogates a
classic fable and a different topic - future planning  tool use  self-recognition  cooperation
and deception - concluding with a verdict on the veracity of each fable's portrayal from a
scientific perspective. By sifting fact from fiction in one of the most beloved texts of our
culture  Aesop's Animals explores and challenges our preconceived notions about animals  the
way they behave  and the roles we both play in our shared world.

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