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Animalkind

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  • 304 pages
  • Hardcover

Animalkind: Remarkable Discoveries about Animals and Revolutionary New Ways to Show Them Compassion
By Ingrid Newkirk and Gene Stone

The founder and president of PETA, Ingrid Newkirk, and bestselling author Gene Stone explore the wonders of animal life and offer tools for behaving more kindly toward them.

In the last few decades, a wealth of new information has emerged about who animals are: intelligent, aware, and empathetic individuals. Studies show that they're astounding beings with creativity, emotions, intricate communication networks, and myriad abilities. In animalkind, Newkirk and Stone present these findings in a concise and awe-inspiring way, detailing a variety of surprising discoveries—including that geese fall in love and stay with a partner for life, fish "sing" underwater, and elephants use their trunks to send subsonic signals to alert other herds miles away to danger.

Newkirk and Stone pair their exploration of the astounding lives of animals with a guide to the exciting new tools that allow humans to avoid using or abusing them as we once did. They show readers what they can do in their everyday lives to ensure that the animal world is protected from needless harm. Whether for medicine, product testing, food, clothing, or entertainment, there are now better options to replace all the ways animals were once used by humans. We can reap the benefits of medical research that no longer requires monkeys to be caged in laboratories, choose vegan versions of everything from shrimp to sausage to milk to marshmallows, substitute warmer and lighter faux fleece for wool, and scrap captive-orca exhibits and elephant rides for virtual reality and animatronics.

animalkind is a fascinating study of reasons why our fellow living beings deserve our respect—and moreover, it suggests steps that every reader can take to put this new understanding into action.

Watch Ingrid Newkirk’s riveting “Animalkind” book talk, available now on demand!
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