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Lädt ... Wildhood: The Astounding Connections between Human and Animal Adolescentsvon Dr. Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, Kathryn Bowers (Autor)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Insightful and relevant. ( ) This is a fascinating book about adolescents - both human and animal. I'm sure both young people and their parents would find that they understood the process a lot better if they read this. I'm also sure some of the parents would be frightened along the way. My advice: keep reading. The final chapters will make you feel better. I read the German translation. I really appreciated that the translator often added in the original term. All living things go through a transition from youth to adulthood. It's a time of trying out survival skills and independence, testing boundaries and rebelling against parental control. The authors look at a wide variety of animals- from sea-dwelling mammals and crabs to birds, wolves and hyenas- even fruit flies. They examine how all these different animals navigate the stressful, exhilarating and downright dangerous time of adolescence. The book is divided into several parts, focusing on how animals learn to be safe- flirting with danger in order to learn about it, navigate social structures attempting to gain or hold status, experiment with courtship skills, and learn how to provide for themselves- hunting or finding food. They compare the way animals manage all this, to how human adolescents also learn to become independent adults. Some animals immediately shove their young off on their own, others have a long teaching period or allow their offspring to linger around the home territory with partial support for as long as they need it. It's all very interesting and I came across lots of things I never knew before. There are a few specific individuals whose coming-of-age moments are in the book as a narrative- they are a penguin, humpback whale, Eurasian wolf, cougar and a spotted hyena- but their stories are told in a very stretched-out manner. One or two sentences about the animal first leaving home- it's about to leap into the ocean!- and then paragraphs on scientific data or explanations or examples from other species- and then one more snippet about the animal- followed by a whole chapter of tangents. Well, the tangents are actually the point, but I nearly forgot about the penguin or hyena example in the meantime. Also there's a very odd typo where a klipspringer is repeatedly called clip springer (it's a small antelope) which really bugged me. And I didn't really care for the term "wildhood" which the authors chose to use. They explained why, but it still felt gimmicky to me. I don't know what's wrong with just using the term adolescence or youth, even when talking about animals. Regardless, I really enjoyed this book. from the Dogear Diary Zeige 4 von 4 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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Erwachsenwerden ist nicht nur beim Menschen eine turbulente Zeit. Evolutionsbiologin Barbara Natterson-Horowitz schildert die Schwierigkeiten der Pubertät und ihre Parallelen bei verschiedenen Tieren wie Hai, Krokodil, Adler oder Giraffe. So wirbt sie bei Eltern und Erziehern für mehr Gelassenheit gegenüber den Wagnissen, die Kindern helfen, Selbstständigkeit und ihren Platz in der Welt zu finden. Die Autorin hat bereits in "Wir sind Tier" mit der Perspektive physischer und psychischer Gesundheit einen besonderen Akzent im reichen Literaturangebot zum Tier-Mensch-Verhältnis gesetzt (z.B. I. Birmelin, N. Sachser, K. Brensing, C. Safina). Auch in diesem Sachbuch gelingt es, problemspezifisch, originell und unterhaltsam aus der Masse hervorzustechen und sogar den unmittelbar betroffenen, heranwachsenden Lesern mit verblüffenden biologischen Zusammenhängen eine Orientierung im Chaos der Gefühle zu geben. Anders als die deutsche Ausgabe hat das englische Original bereits viel positive Aufmerksamkeit der internationalen Presse erhalten. (1 J,S) Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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