Beginning with Yuka a 39 000-year-old mummified woolly mammoth recently found in the Siberian
permafrost each of the sixteen essays in Animals Strike Curious Poses investigates a different
famous animal named and immortalised by humans. Here are the starling that inspired Mozart with
its song Darwin's tortoise Harriet and in an extraordinary essay Jumbo the elephant (and how
they tried to electrocute him). Modelled loosely on a medieval bestiary these witty playful
provocative essays traverse history myth science and more introducing a stunning new writer
to British readers.
