The founder and president of PETA, Ingrid Newkirk, and bestselling author Gene Stone explore the wonders of animal life 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—intelligent, aware, and empathetic. Studies show that animals are astounding living beings with emotions, intricate communications networks, and myriad abilities. In Animalkind, PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk and bestselling author Gene Stone present these findings in a concise, cohesive, reader-friendly way, detailing a range of surprising discoveries: that geese fall in love and stay with a partner for life, that mice “sing” underwater, and that elephants grieve and mourn, even visiting from long distances after a relative has died.
Newkirk and Stone pair their tour of the astounding lives of animals with a guide to the exciting new tools that allow humans to avoid using or abusing animals…
