The Social Lives of Animals Quotes

“We might imagine a large brain to be essential, but it’s an expensive luxury.”
― Ashley Ward, The Social Lives of Animals

“There’s quite a bit of overlap between the larder and the toilet, in that mole-rats are avid consumers of turds.”
― Ashley Ward, The Social Lives of Animals

“The question was, Could these few manage to lead the many, while still obeying the rule to remain within an arm’s length of at least one other person? Sure enough, so long as at least 5 percent of the group was given the instruction to move toward the target, they were capable of leading the rest of the people who were in the dark about this objective.”
― Ashley Ward, The Social Lives of Animals

“Another trick is to find something that makes one of the animals stand out. In that case, the predator can lock on to its victim and, very often, catch it. This trick also has a name: the oddity effect.”
― Ashley Ward, The Social Lives of Animals