Peter Wohlleben’s The Hidden Life of Trees has been a best seller, and now he’s turned his pen to the inner lives of animals. In this new book he draws more on the known science of what goes on in animals’ heads. It’s presented in short chapters, and covers subjects like motherly love, gratitude, deception, desire, shame, grief, fear and many more.There are numerous fascinating stories – one fascinating one is of an “abandoned” faun, brought home by children when it had in fact really been carefully hidden by its mother, so that she could graze and replenish her milk reserves. But the faun, raised as a pet, when it matured, far from becoming tame, tried to chase away its human “parents”, which now encroached on its “land”, resulting in violent attacks on its human foster parents.
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