Book Review: Carnivore Minds (and Beyond Words)

[osprey_archer]

I found G. A. Bradshaw's Carnivore Minds a great disappointment. For a book that purports to be about the fact that carnivores of all kinds are not unthinking automatons but in fact have lively and variable personalities, there's very little about individual animal personality at all, and quite a bit of repetition of the fact that animal brains

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[wordsofastory]

Too bad about Carnivore Minds. I had thought it sounded very interesting.

On the other hand, Beyond Words seems great! I really like the excerpt you posted. I think I saw something about that same wolf pack (not sure if it was by the same author, unfortunately) circulating on tumblr, and it was a very fun read.

[osprey_archer]

The description on Netgalley was so promising! WHAT WENT WRONG?(Everything, clearly.)

That wolf pack is one of the most studied, because they live in Yellowstone, so it wouldn't surprise me at all if it came from another source. In fact, I am tempted to track down more books about them, just to indulge in more wolfy goodness... So many books! So little time!