Lucy Cooke (1)
Author of The Truth About Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales from the Wild Side of Wildlife
For other authors named Lucy Cooke, see the disambiguation page.
About the Author
Lucy Cooke is an award-winning filmmaker for the BBC, PBS, Discovery, and National Geographic. Her first book, A Little Book of Sloth, was a New York Times bestseller. She has written for the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, and she holds an MA in zoology from the University of Oxford. show more She lives in London. show less
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- 20th century
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- female
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- United Kingdom
- Places of residence
- London, England, UK
- Education
- University of Oxford (MA|zoology)
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zoologist
television producer - Organizations
- BBC Wildlife Magazine
National Geographic Society - Agent
- Will Francis
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- Lucy Cooke is an award-winning filmmaker and National Geographic Explorer with a masters in zoology from the University of Oxford. Her first book, A Little Book of Sloth, was a New York Times bestseller. She lives in London.
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Informative and funny. It combines research ,anecdotes and personal interviews to illuminate a lot about the females of many species.It’s a meditation on how preconceived notions can effect science even without the scientists realizing it. Here and there a bit preachy, but a great read
Written in language both chummy and intensely Euro-centric. Lots of great and new facts and ways of looking at certain animals and the myths thats surround them. It very much had thr feel of chatting with the writer at a cocktail party, or perhaps its the edgy tv series she's always wanted to produce.
In this fascinating and fun book, each chapter focuses on an animal we humans have had misconceptions about, especially those we have historically either looked upon in scorn or regarded with disgust. Author Lucy Cooke is naturally witty and inserts just the right amount of humor into the text. Not only will you receive the gift of visualizing frogs in underpants, there are oodles of charming facts and "wow!" moments. My favorite, heart-warming passage reveals that sloths don't sleep most of their day, but instead spend the majority of their time "quietly hanging in the trees in a seemingly meditative state, motionless, with their eyes open and staring blankly into space" (would that we all could do so).… (more)
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