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Linda Lombardi

Animals Behaving Badly: Boozing Bees, Cheating Chimps, Dogs with Guns, and Other Beastly True Tales Paperback – October 4, 2011

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There's a lot that animals don't want you to know, and the better their public image, the worse their secrets are: gang-rapist dolphins; lazy, infanticidal lions; and, of course, our own dogs, who eat our money, set our houses on fire, and in more than one case, actually shoot their owners with guns.

Animals Behaving Badly shows that animals are just like us: gluttonous, selfish, violent, lustful, and always looking out for number one. Using anecdotes from the news and from scientific research, Linda Lombardi pokes fun at our softhearted preconceptions about animals, makes us feel a little better about humanity's basest impulses, and painlessly teaches us a bit more about our furry and feathered friends.

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Bees love alcohol: even, says one researcher, more than college students
Pandas enjoy pornographic movies-they're particularly aroused by the soundtrack-and macaques will pay with juice to look at dirty pictures
A rabbit who lives in a pub in England is addicted to gambling with a slot machine
African elephants raised by teenage mothers form violent youth gangs

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224 pages
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English
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TarcherPerigee
Publication date

October 4, 2011
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5.12 x 0.59 x 7.97 inches
ISBN-10

0399536973
ISBN-13

978-0399536977
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"This book is educational, hilarious, and it makes me wish it was legal to participate in cage fighting with an endangered species."
-Matthew Inman, TheOatmeal.com and author of 5 Very Good Reasons to Punch a Dolphin in the Mouth

About the Author

As a child growing up in the Bronx, Linda Lombardi liked to play with a basket full of plastic animals instead of human dolls. Later in life, she gave up a tenured position as a college professor to take a zookeeping job. Formerly the pets and animals columnist for the Associated Press and author of the mystery The Sloth's Eye, she has spent much of her life either slaving over animals or writing about how great they are. This book is her revenge.
Visit her website and the Animals Behaving Badly blog at www.lindalombardi.com

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ TarcherPerigee; Original edition (October 4, 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0399536973
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0399536977
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.7 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.12 x 0.59 x 7.97 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #4,244,492 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,091 in Animal Behavior & Communication
- #4,549 in Cat, Dog & Animal Humor
- #24,673 in Fiction Satire

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Now available! The second volume in my zoo mystery series, The Lemur's Cry.

As a child growing up in the Bronx, Linda Lombardi liked to play with a basket full of plastic animals instead of human dolls. Later in life, she gave up a position as a tenured college professor to take a zookeeping job. Formerly the pets and animals columnist for the Associated Press and author of the mysteries The Sloth's Eye and The Lemur's Cry, she has spent most of her life either slaving over animals or writing about how great they are. The book Animals Behaving Badly is her revenge. Read the first chapter of The Sloth's Eye and the Animals Behaving Badly blog at her website, www.lindalombardi.com.

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Katie Richmond

Gifted

Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2014

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I got this as a gift for a friend, so I haven't read it myself, but she loved it! As soon as she finishes it, I will be reading it too.

Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2011

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I LOVE animals and find these short narratives about their "naughtiness" hysterical. I laugh-out-loud *at least* twice a page and find each chapter very entertaining.

If you're an animal lover, you will enjoy this book.

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Big John

Fun book

Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2013

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Good read, this book has a proud place right next to the head. Seven more words are needed before I can post. Done

Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2020

How fun is this? Dogs, cats,bears and dolphins behaving worse than many humans! Even fish and insects get in on the shenanigans.

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Melanie D. Typaldos

Animals behave worse than you think

Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2011

If you think this is a children's book, think again.

With my background and longstanding interest in behavioral biology, I was familiar with almost all of the behaviors described in this book but they seem so different when discussed in a dispassionate, scientific parlance. Lombardi's quirky sense of humor (also on display in her novel, The Sloth's Eye) puts a whole new spin on things. Looked at in this new light, some animal behavior is hilarious, some disturbing and some just plain disgusting.

When Lombardi compares the bad behavior of the animals in the book to human behavior, it doesn't matter how badly the animals behave, the humans still come off looking worse, although not in any kind of lecturing or preachy mode, just a little bit of introspection.

As a major capybara affictionado, I was relieved that capybaras only make two quick cameo appearances, both on the (slightly) positive side.

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M.L. Madison

You won't stop laughing (or believe it's all true)

Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2014

I had to keep interrupting my husband from whatever he was doing, saying, "You MUST listen to this!" Whether it's a bear knocking someone out for a sandwich in his own driveway, or hummingbirds proving they deserve a bad rap, you really won't believe this stuff.

Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2011

This book was awesome because it gave me all sorts of alibis for arson and such. Who knew animals were such terrific scape-goats?

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Donna S Scott

FUN, FUN, FUN

Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2014

Tongue-in-cheek stories about the real world of animals. Who knew they could be so bad, and so funny at the same time? Fun read!

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Wendymedia

An easy Read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 13, 2012

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A must for all animal lovers. It's an ideal size to carry wth you and read on the train or bus.

T. Prell

Dunkler als angenommen.

Reviewed in Germany on April 9, 2015

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Das Buch ist an sich sehr lesenswert, aber nicht so heiter wie angenommen. Es ist meiner Meinung nach wichtig den Text auf der Rückseite in Hinterkopf zu behalten, welcher das Buch als Rache einer Zoowärterin/Tierliebhaberin bezeichnet und genau so liest es sich! Knuffige Viecher bloßgestellt. Von Vergewaltigung und Kindesmord, bis Diebstahl und lügen - alles dabei. Insgesamt allerdings sehr amüsant und informativ, wenn auch ein wenig dunkel.

Das Buch ist etwas kürzer als man denkt, und endet auf Seite 169 von 200-irgendwass, der Rest sind Quellenangabe. Viele Quellen sind sehr oft Tageszeitungen aber es findet sich auch die eine oder andere wissenschaftliche Publikation.

Generell hatte ich sehr viel Freude an dem Buch (wunderbar für zwischendurch) aber einen Stern ziehe ich für das absolut bekloppte Layout ab. Gelegentlich werden Geschichten für andere eigenständige (an der Umrandung zu erkennende) Geschichten unterbrochen und grundlos auf der nächsten Seit fortgesetzt. Das ist etwas störend aber kein Drama. Trotzdem ein tolles Buch.

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Cindy Herrick

funny book

Reviewed in Canada on September 4, 2014

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very funny book. spume of the information was hysterical. full of surprises.

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