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035    (OCoLC)1257292176 
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100 1  Ward, Ashley,|eauthor. 
245 14 The social lives of animals /|cAshley Ward. 
250    First U.S. edition. 
264  1 New York :|bBasic Books,|c2022. 
300    v, 372 pages ;|c25 cm. 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
520    "A rat will go out of its way to help a cold, wet 
       stranger. Cockroaches pass down generational knowledge, 
       hyenas form personal relationships with members of 
       different species, and ants farm fungus in cooperatives. 
       Why do we continue to believe that life in the animal 
       kingdom is ruled by competition? Why do we believe that 
       humans are special for their ability to live and work 
       together, or worse, that human society is somehow 
       "unnatural"? In The Social Lives of Animals, animal 
       behavior expert Ashely Ward embarks on a global search to 
       reveal the surprising, delightful, and occasionally 
       downright strange ways that animals build and manage 
       societies, with both members of their own species and 
       others. Ward studies how shoals of krill search for food 
       by plying them with beer, visits baboons in Namibia that 
       work for hire as goatherds, wades through a literal river 
       of shit to study how groupthink spreads among sticklebacks,
       and swims with a family of sperm whales that adopted an 
       orphaned dolphin. By studying animal societies on their 
       own terms, we can see clearly that human societies may not
       be so unique. Rather, human social life may be just one 
       version of a basic animal instinct. Biology has, since 
       Darwin, tried to understand species by studying how they 
       compete. But in the end, The Social Lives of Animals shows
       that you can often learn more about animals, including 
       humans, by studying how they work together than by how 
       they tear each other apart"--|cProvided by publisher. 
650  0 Animal communities. 
650  0 Social behavior in animals. 
650  0 Animal behavior. 
650  7 SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / General.|2bisacsh 
650  7 Animal behavior.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00809079 
650  7 Animal communities.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00809129 
650  7 Social behavior in animals.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01122278 
655  7 Informational works.|2lcgft 
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