Animals Behaving Badly: Boozing Bees, Cheating Chimps, Dogs with Guns, and Other Beastly True Tales

Description

Animals can be just like humans - selfish, gluttonous, violent, lustful and always looking out for number one. Featuring anecdotes from the news and scientific research, readers will learn that bees love alcohol (more than students!), monkeys pay for sex and African elephants form violent gangs because they were raised by teenage mothers. Light-hearted and irreverent, this hilarious book includes striking line drawings from illustrator Kevin Sherry and is the perfect gift for pet lovers.

As a child growing up in the Bronx, Linda Lombardi liked to play with a basket full of plastic animals instead of human dolls. Later in life, she gave up a tenured position as a college professor to take a zookeeping job. Formerly the pets and animals columnist for the Associated Press and author of the mystery The Sloth's Eye, she has spent much of her life either slaving over animals or writing about how great they are. This book is her revenge. Visit her website and the Animals Behaving Badly blog at www.lindalombardi.com