Humans are the most inquisitive emotional imaginative aggressive and baffling animals on the
planet. But how well do we really know ourselves? How to Be Animal offers a radical take on
what it means to be human and argues that at the heart of our psychology is a profound struggle
with being animal. Tracing the history of this thinking through to its far-reaching effects on
our lives and drawing on a range of disciplines Challenger proposes that being an animal is a
process beautiful and unpredictable and that we have a chance to tell ourselves a new story
to realise that if we matter so does everything else.