Written by Karen Shanor & Jagmeet Kanwal
Read by Jeff Harding
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Did you know that bats compose their own songs and babble to each other? Or that mice giggle when they are tickled? That lizards do push-ups to seduce a mate, or that elephants mimic the sounds of passing trucks to stave off loneliness? Bats Sing, Mice Giggle is the culmination of many years of research that reveals how wild animals, as well as pets, have secret, inner lives of which until recently - although animals lovers will have instinctively believed it - we have had little proof. Drs. Shanor and Kanwal explain how animal friends keep in touch, and how they warn and help each other in times of danger; how some animals problem-solve even more effectively than humans - and how they build, create and entertain themselves and others. The authors reveal how animals express grief, joy, anger and fear, and experience a similar breadth of emotions as we humans. They describe sleep patterns of dolphins, who go to sleep in only one half of their brains at a time; and how schools of electric fish generate and use complex electric fields to determine their location within the group. Bats Sing, Mice Giggle is an eye-opening voyage of discovery - one which shows that many behavioural and mental traits considered uniquely human are in fact shared with other species.