Much Like Us: What Science Reveals about the Thoughts, Feelings, and Behaviour of Animals

Norbert Sachser's book, "Much Like Us," explores the inner lives of animals and reveals what we know about their thoughts, feelings, and behavior. It challenges preconceptions and demonstrates the humanity in our fellow creatures by bringing the science to life with examples and anecdotes.

Format: Hardback
Length: 166 pages
Publication date: 05 May 2022
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

What really differentiates us from our relatives in the animal world? And what can they teach us about ourselves? Taking these questions as his starting point, Norbert Sachser presents fascinating insights into the inner lives of animals, revealing what we now know about their thoughts, feelings and behaviour. By turns surprising, humorous and thought-provoking, Much Like Us invites us on a journey around the animal kingdom, explaining along the way how dogs demonstrate empathy, why chimpanzees wage war and how crows and ravens craft tools to catch food. Sachser brings the science to life with examples and anecdotes drawn from his own research, illuminating the vast strides in understanding that have been made over the last 30 years. He ultimately invites us to challenge our own preconceptions – the closer we look, the more we see the humanity in our fellow creatures.

Weight: 404g
Dimension: 159 x 235 x 16 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781108838498