Animalkind, Ingrid Newkirk
Animalkind, Ingrid Newkirk
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Animalkind
Remarkable Discoveries About Animals and Revolutionary New Ways to Show Them Compassion

Author: Ingrid Newkirk, Gene Stone

Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross

Unabridged: 9 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/07/2020

Categories: Nonfiction, Nature, Animals, Pets


Synopsis

The founder and president of PETA, Ingrid Newkirk, and bestselling author Gene Stone explore the wonders of animal life with “admiration and empathy” (The New York Times Book Review) and offer tools for living more kindly toward them.

In the last few decades, a wealth of new information has emerged about who animals are: astounding beings with intelligence, emotions, intricate communications networks, and myriad abilities. In Animalkind, Ingrid Newkirk and Gene Stone present these findings in a concise and awe-inspiring way, detailing a range of surprising discoveries, like that geese fall in love and stay with a partner for life, that fish “sing” underwater, and that elephants use their trunks to send subsonic signals, alerting other herds to danger miles away.

Newkirk and Stone pair their tour through the astounding lives of animals with a guide to the exciting new tools that allow humans to avoid using or abusing animals as we once did. Whether it’s medicine, product testing, entertainment, clothing, or food, there are now better options to all the uses animals once served in human life. We can substitute warmer, lighter faux fleece for wool, choose vegan versions of everything from shrimp to marshmallows, reap the benefits of animal-free medical research, and scrap captive orca exhibits and elephant rides for virtual reality and animatronics.

Animalkind provides a fascinating look at why our fellow living beings deserve our respect, and lays out the steps everyone can take to put this new understanding into action.

About Ingrid Newkirk

Ingrid Newkirk founded PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), the largest animal rights organization in the world, with affiliates in eight countries, in 1980. She is the author of Save the Animals! 101 Things You Can DoKids Can Save the AnimalsThe Compassionate Cook, and several other books available in multiple languages.

About Gene Stone

Gene Stone has written, cowritten, or ghost-written more than forty-five books on a wide variety of subjects, including the bestsellers Forks Over Knives, How Not to Die, Living the Farm Sanctuary Life, and The Engine 2 Diet.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Peacegal on January 30, 2020

Books that collect fascinating and amazing facts about animals' abilities, intelligence, and behavior are fairly common, but just as we never seem to tire of cute or amazing animal videos, their publication shows no signs of slowing. That's the first half of this book. The second half is more activi......more

Goodreads review by Shari on October 21, 2019

Ingrid Newkirk, the founder of PETA and Gene Stone, an author have co-written a book about the wonderful world of animals and how humans have exploited them over the years. The book is written in two parts. The first part discusses all the wonderful things about animals. The second part talks about......more

Goodreads review by Joel on January 07, 2020

Ingrid Newkirk has long been a hero of mine, so I feel blessed to have received a preview copy of this book and I must say it did not disappoint. This books tells many fascinating and delightful tales about how interesting and compelling animals are. It feels even more relevant today than ever befor......more

Goodreads review by Mihaela on June 18, 2021

Anyone that considers themselves as animal lovers should read this book. Amazing read! I started connecting the dots and it really makes sense!......more

Goodreads review by Seth on March 24, 2023

Loved it. Tons of facts if you love to learn about animals & how intelligent (and cool) they are. The authors did a good job of giving the truth about the harsh realities animals face today and options you can follow to reduce the harm done to them......more