Wildhood: The Epic Journey from Adolescence to Adulthood in Humans and Other Animals Audiobook (Free)

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“It blew my mind to discover that teenage animals and teenage humans are so related. Both are naive risk-takers. I enjoyed this reserve!” —Temple Grandin, author of Pets Make Us Individual and Animals in Translation

A revelatory analysis of human being and animal adolescence and young adulthood from the brand new York Situations bestselling writers about Wildhood: The Epic Trip from Adolescence to Adulthood in Humans and Additional Animals of Zoobiquity.

With Wildhood, Harvard evolutionary biologist Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and award-winning science writer Kathryn Bowers have created a completely new thought process about the crucial, vulnerable, and exhilarating phase of life between childhood and adulthood across the animal kingdom.

Within their critically acclaimed bestseller, Zoobiquity, the authors revealed the fundamental connection between individual and animal health. In Wildhood, they change the same eye-opening, species-spanning lens to adolescent young adult life. Vacationing around the world and sketching from their most recent research, they discover how the same four common challenges are confronted by every adolescent human and animal on earth: how exactly to be safe, how exactly to navigate hierarchy; how to court potential mates; and how to feed oneself. Safety. Position. Sex. Self-reliance. How individual and animal adolescents and adults confront the issues of wildhood styles their adult destinies.

Natterson-Horowitz and Bowers illuminate these core difficulties through the lives of 4 animals in the open: Ursula, a ruler penguin; Shrink, a charismatic hyena; Salt, a matriarchal humpback whale; and Slavc, a roaming European wolf. Through their riveting tales—and those of countless others, from ambitious eagles and rambunctious high schooler to inexperienced orcas and naive young soldiers—readers get yourself a brilliant and game-changing portrait of adolescent young adults like a horizontal tribe, writing behaviors and challenges, setbacks and triumphs.

Upending our understanding of from risk-taking and panic to the roots of privilege and the type of sexual coercion and consent, Wildhood is normally a profound and necessary guide to the perilous, thrilling, and general journey to adulthood on planet earth.