Animal Societies

How Co-Operation Conquered the Natural World

De: Ashley Ward

Narrado por: Ashley Ward

In our modern world of social media and relentless technological advancement, we are more connected than ever before. Though the scale of this connectivity is new, the instinctive desire to gather with our own kind has ancient roots. We can see the origins of our own societies in the social behaviour of the animals that share the planet with us. What’s more, human characteristics such as altruism, empathy, leadership and language can also be witnessed among animal groups.

Join Biologist Ashley Ward as he takes listeners into the intimate worlds of social animals. Journeying from Aysgarth Falls to the Great Barrier Reef, it becomes clear that animals are not so far removed from us as we might imagine. In a time where humans are struggling to navigate cityscapes, isolation and a loneliness epidemic, Ward shows us that studying the social behaviour of animals offers insights valuable in their own right as well as a window into the evolutionary basis of our own species.

©2020 Ashley Ward (P)2020 Audible, Ltd

Great book

The book was really captivating, well researched, with a great performance. A lot interesting new information and well organized. Even though it did not have many reviews and the author is not a very well known scientist, this book is really great, so don’t let yourself influenced but that.

Effective overview of Social ability

Clear well developed presentation of the development and critical importance of social skills. Covers multitude of species.

Lacking depth

There were plenty of factoids about a wide range of animal species, but much of the content was surface level observations I'd already come across in other works. It would have been more compelling if there was an overarching hypothesis or narrative to tie chapters together