In the Shadow of Animals

“This book is another delightful and profoundly enlightening storybook for people of all ages by Michael Hehenberger. It is extremely well organized on multiple levels. The author makes the ‘frame story’ and the individual concepts understandable. He manages to celebrate and describe the complexity of life in terms nonscientists can easily understand, without oversimplification. Families with children will be very happy to read this book together, while the rest of us will have trouble putting the book down before we’ve raced through it all. Each chapter can stand alone as its own manuscript, and they all fit together in one magnificent compendium, making it easy for me to enthusiastically recommend this work without any reservations whatsoever.” Dr P. David Mozley Cornell University Weill College of Medicine, and Lutroo Imaging, LLC, USA “Dr Hehenberger masterfully shows us that the arc and poetry of life are not exclusive to humans—the countless interactions we have with the animal kingdom enhance both us and them as in a continuous Darwinian Terpsichore. With exceptional insight, he walks with us along the winding consanguinity of our animal/human paths and shows us that there is not a particle of life that does not bear poetry within it. Will Cuppy said, “If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence”. This wonderful book is an intimate guided tour of how closely related we are to the rest of the animal kingdom, and how our phylum was formed in the glowing crucible of life that illuminates us in the shadow of animals.” William Weiss III Landscape Architect, USA