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  • Animalkind

  • Remarkable Discoveries About Animals and Revolutionary New Ways to Show Them Compassion
  • By: Ingrid Newkirk, Gene Stone
  • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
  • Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (10 ratings)

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Animalkind

By: Ingrid Newkirk, Gene Stone
Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
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Summary

The founder and president of PETA, Ingrid Newkirk, and best-selling author Gene Stone explore the wonders of animal life with “admiration and empathy” (The New York Times Book Review) 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: astounding beings with intelligence, emotions, intricate communications networks, and myriad abilities. In Animalkind, Ingrid Newkirk and Gene Stone present these findings in a concise and awe-inspiring way, detailing a range of surprising discoveries, like that geese fall in love and stay with a partner for life, that fish “sing” underwater, and that elephants use their trunks to send subsonic signals, alerting other herds to danger miles away.

Newkirk and Stone pair their tour through the astounding lives of animals with a guide to the exciting new tools that allow humans to avoid using or abusing animals as we once did. Whether it’s medicine, product testing, entertainment, clothing, or food, there are now better options to all the uses animals once served in human life. We can substitute warmer, lighter faux fleece for wool, choose vegan versions of everything from shrimp to marshmallows, reap the benefits of animal-free medical research, and scrap captive orca exhibits and elephant rides for virtual reality and animatronics.

Animalkind provides a fascinating look at why our fellow living beings deserve our respect, and lays out the steps everyone can take to put this new understanding into action.

©2020 Ingrid Newkirk and Gene Stone (P)2020 Simon & Schuster Audio
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Exceptional and important book

Simply put, we humans are not better than animals... we are just different. There is no justification for exploiting, abusing, killing or consuming animals. It needs to end. This book is crammed full of details of how sentient, intelligent and remarkable the beings we share our planet with truly are. It then tells just some of the horrific ways in which humans abuse animals, from testing, to entertainment, to farming.

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Enlightening and emotional read. ...a must for everyone

Every one can learn something from this book. It not only informs but gives us small steps we can take to help make the world a kinder place

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