| Edition |
First Scribner hardcover edition. |
| Description |
xii, 354 pages : illustrations, maps, charts ; 24 cm |
| Note |
The four challenges of adolescence seen through the experiences of four wild animals: Ursula, a king penguin; Shrink, a spotted hyena; Salt a North Atlantic humpback whale; and Slavc, a European wolf. |
| Summary |
" In their critically acclaimed bestseller, Zoobiquity, the authors revealed the essential connection between human and animal health. In Wildhood, they turn the same eye-opening, species-spanning lens to adolescent young adult life. Traveling around the world and drawing from their latest research, they find that the same four universal challenges are faced by every adolescent human and animal on earth: how to be safe, how to navigate hierarchy; how to court potential mates; and how to feed oneself. Safety. Status. Sex. Self-reliance. How human and animal adolescents and young adults confront the challenges of wildhood shapes their adult destinies"--Amazon. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical resources (pages [279]-330) and index. |
| Contents |
Prologue -- Part I. Safety. 1. Dangerous days ; 2. The nature of fear ; 3. Knowing your predators ; 4. The self-confident fish ; 5. School for survival -- Part II. Status. 6. The age of assessment ; 7. The rules of groups ; 8. Privileged creatures ; 9. The pain of social descent ; 10. The power of an ally -- Part III. Sex. 11. Animal romance ; 12. Desire & restraint ; 13. The first time ; 14. Coercion & consent -- Part IV. Self-reliance. 15. Learning to launch ; 16. Making a living ; 17. The great alone ; 18. Finding a self -- Epilogue. |
| Subject |
Puberty -- Animal models.
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Adolescence.
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Adolescent psychology.
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Animal psychology.
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Animal behavior.
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Human behavior.
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Animal life cycles.
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Parent and teenager.
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Psychology, Comparative.
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Mammals.
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| Added Author |
Bowers, Kathryn, author.
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| ISBN |
1501164694 (hardcover) |
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9781501164699 (hardcover) |
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