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Playing possum : how animals understand death

text Playing possum : how animals understand death

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"When the opossum feels threatened, she becomes paralyzed. Her body temperature plummets, her breathing and heart rates drop to a minimum, and her glands simulate the smell of a putrefying corpse. Playing Possum explores what the opossum and other... Read more
Contents
Introduction: The Silence of the Chimps -- The Ant who Attended her Own Funeral -- The Whale who Carried her Baby Across Half the World -- The Ape who Played House with Corpses -- The Dog who Mistook his Human for a Snack -- The Elephant who Colle... Read more
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xii, 243 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Publisher
Princeton University Press 2024

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KCL 591.5 MONSÓ in Adult Non-fiction Reshelving

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