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- ISBN-13
- 9781982154462
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- ISBN
- 9781982154462
- Book Title
- Kingdom of Play : What Ball-Bouncing Octopuses, Belly-flopping Monkeys, and Mud-sliding Elephants Reveal about Life Itself
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Publication Year
- 2024
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1in
- Genre
- Nature, Psychology, Science
- Topic
- Animal & Comparative Psychology, Life Sciences / Zoology / Ethology (Animal Behavior), Animals / Wildlife, Life Sciences / Zoology / General
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 15.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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For readers of Inside of a Dog and The Soul of an Octopus , a fascinating, charming, and revelatory look at the science behind why animals play that shows how life--at its most fundamental level--is playful. In Kingdom of Play , critically acclaimed science writer David Toomey takes us on a fast-paced and entertaining tour of playful animals and the scientists who study them. From octopuses on Australia's Great Barrier Reef to meerkats in the Kalahari Desert to brown bears on Alaska's Aleutian Islands, we follow adventurous researchers as they design and conduct experiments seeking answers to new, intriguing questions: When did play first appear in animals? How does play develop the brain, and how did it evolve? Are the songs and aerial acrobatics of birds the beginning of avian culture? Is fairness in dog play the foundation of canine ethics? And does play direct and possibly accelerate evolution? Monkeys belly-flop, dolphins tail-walk, elephants mud-slide, crows dive-bomb, and octopuses bounce balls. These activities are various, but all are play, and as Toomey explains, animal play can be seen as a distinct behavior--one that is ongoing and open-ended, purposeless and provisional--rather like natural selection. Through a close examination of both natural selection and play, Toomey argues that life itself is fundamentally playful. A globe-spanning journey and a scientific detective story filled with lively animal anecdotes, Kingdom of Play is an illuminating--and yes, playful--look at a little-known aspect of the animal kingdom.
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Publisher
Scribner
ISBN-10
1982154462
ISBN-13
9781982154462
eBay Product ID (ePID)
25061232369
Product Key Features
Book Title
Kingdom of Play : What Ball-Bouncing Octopuses, Belly-flopping Monkeys, and Mud-sliding Elephants Reveal about Life Itself
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Animal & Comparative Psychology, Life Sciences / Zoology / Ethology (Animal Behavior), Animals / Wildlife, Life Sciences / Zoology / General
Publication Year
2024
Genre
Nature, Psychology, Science
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
15.8 Oz
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Ql763.5.T66 2024
Reviews
"[An] engaging journey into animal play . . . a carefully curated and clearly presented overview of years of research . . . making for a fun and absorbing read." -- Booklist (starred review) "A lively, informative, and scientifically entertaining animal behavior study." -- Kirkus, "Play is serious stuff. But what exactly is that stuff? In Kingdom of Play , David Toomey breaches the barriers that have belittled play behavior as either unworthy of serious (if delightful) consideration or simply too hard to define to be investigated. Toomey indeed investigates, and you will recognize your dog or cat--and certainly yourself--among the many playful inhabitants of these pages." -- Carl Safina, author of Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel and Alfie and Me: What Owls Know and What Humans Believe, " Kingdom of Play is an engaging romp through virtually all aspects of play in animals from bees to bears. David Toomey not only shows how animals play, but overviews the various theories about play, our current knowledge of why animals play, the neuroscience of play, and the critical role of evolution in understanding play and why it is both fun and critically important in the lives of so many animals, including us." -- Gordon M. Burghardt, Alumni Distinguished Service Professor (Emeritus) of Psychology and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Tennessee and author of The Genesis of Animal Play: Testing the Limits
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2023-029396
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