Mark Cocker

Animals make us human

Anthropomorphism was once seen as the ultimate scientific sin. Not any more, as three fascinating books explain

  • The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief and Compassion — Surprising Observations of a Hidden World

    Peter Wohlleben

    Bodley Head, pp. 281

  • The Animals Among Us: The New Science of Anthrozoology

    John Bradshaw

    Allen Lane, pp. 352

  • Being Salmon, Being Human: Encountering the Wild in Us and Us in the Wild

    Martin Lee Mueller

    Chelsea Green, pp. 384

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