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Cindy Engel's fascinating study addresses a subject all too rarely tackled in popular anthropology: how the denizens of the animal kingdom manage to stay healthy in their punishing environment. Working from the premise that we are all animals, Engel quickly makes it clear that we have a lot to learn from our non-human friends, and one of the strands of her argument is an attack on our over-reliance on unnatural drugs. Animals, perforce, are obliged to be natural experts in the field of staying alive, and mammals and birds are fully aware of the healing effects of plants and vegetation. This is one of the many ingenious ways in which animals keep illness and infection at bay, and Engel's examples are as instructive as they are diverting (such as the odysseys elephants set out on in order to track down the clay which works against toxins in their bodies; elephants are also excellent nurses to each other, pulling spears out of wounded members of their group). Apart from the wealth of common sense suggestions here, the pleasure of the book comes from the fashion in which the reader is immersed in this very unfamiliar world. Helpful notes and indexes back up the basic thesis here; if all anthropology books were as accessible as this one, they would be rivalling novels and cookery in the bestseller lists. (Kirkus UK)
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'A fact-filled fun-to-read book... Read this book, marvel, and start imitating the wisdom of wild animals'
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Cindy Engel's fascinating study addresses a subject all too rarely tackled in popular anthropology: how the denizens of the animal kingdom manage to stay healthy in their punishing environment. Working from the premise that we are all animals, Engel quickly makes it clear that we have a lot to learn from our non-human friends, and one of the strands of her argument is an attack on our over-reliance on unnatural drugs. Animals, perforce, are obliged to be natural experts in the field of staying alive, and mammals and birds are fully aware of the healing effects of plants and vegetation. This is one of the many ingenious ways in which animals keep illness and infection at bay, and Engel's examples are as instructive as they are diverting (such as the odysseys elephants set out on in order to track down the clay which works against toxins in their bodies; elephants are also excellent nurses to each other, pulling spears out of wounded members of their group). Apart from the wealth of common sense suggestions here, the pleasure of the book comes from the fashion in which the reader is immersed in this very unfamiliar world. Helpful notes and indexes back up the basic thesis here; if all anthropology books were as accessible as this one, they would be rivalling novels and cookery in the bestseller lists. (Kirkus UK)
Jeffry Mason, author of 'When Elephants Weep'
'A fact-filled fun-to-read book... Read this book, marvel, and start imitating the wisdom of wild animals'
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