Kingdom of Play: What Ball-bouncing Octopuses, Bellyflopping Monkeys, and Mud-sliding Elephants Reveal about Life Itself
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This “deightful…copelling”(Scientific American) and revelatory look at the science behind why animals play “wil fill you with joy and wonder”(Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an Octopus).Acclaimed science writer David Toomey takes us on a fast-paced and entertaining tour of playful animals and the scientists who study them. From octopuses on Australia’sGreat Barrier Reef to meerkats in the Kalahari Desert to brown bears on Alaska’sAleutian Islands, we follow adventurous researchers as they design and conduct experiments seeking answers to new, intriguing questions: When did play first appear in animals? How does play develop the brain, and how did it evolve? Are the songs and aerial acrobatics of birds the beginning of avian culture? Is fairness in dog play the foundation of canine ethics? And does play direct and possibly accelerate evolution? Monkeys belly flop, dolphins tail-walk, elephants mud-slide, crows dive-bomb, and octopuses bounce balls. These activities are various, but all are play, and as Toomey