Ingrid Newkirk - Animalkind: Remarkable Discoveries About Animals and Revolutionary New Ways to Show Them Compassion

Praise for Animalkind

This is the book to buy, read, and give to others so that everyone finally sees why they should respect and cherish all animals.

Anjelica Huston, Oscar Awardwinning actress

A resourceful guide and a treasure of greater compassion, integrity, and awareness, Animalkind is both a moving compendium of animals remarkable intelligence and emotional complexity and a manual of all the ways we can stop accepting and contributing to their slaughter and exploitation.Joy Williams, author of The Quick

and the Dead and The Changeling

Animalkind is a much needed antidote to viewing other animals as second-class citizens and offers a fresh look into the cognitive and emotional lives of other animals. This thought-provoking and engaging book will change your view of who other animals are and how you should interact with them in respectful and compassionate ways. It could be a game-changer. Marc Bekoff, PhD, author

of The Emotional Lives of Animals

This book makes the spot-on case that the future of laboratory research will not be based on four-legged or tail-wagging models, but rather on sophisticated, human-relevant and high-tech animal-testing methods. As Newkirk and Stone point out, these modern technologies are delivering better human health outcomes and are benefiting patients, physicians, and researchers.

John Pawlowski, MD, PhD, Harvard Medical Faculty Physician

Buy this book for anyone you know who harbors even the slightest doubt that animals arent super-clever or that there arent many ways to help thembecause Newkirk and Stone show that animals are, and that you can.

Edie Falco, Emmy Awardwinning actress

A fascinating look at animal behavior, as well as a treatise against cruelty toward animals effectively nudges readers to think twice about their own use of products sourced, perhaps less than ethically, from the animal kingdom.

Publishers Weekly

This emotional and informative book should be required reading for everyone! I urge you to pick it up and embrace its beautiful message of compassion and understanding. The time is now for all of us to fall in love with Animalkind!

Mike White, filmmaker, actor, producer

This book takes you by the hand and leads you, enchanted, into the wonderful world of diverse animal life.

James Cromwell, Emmy-winning actor

After a wide-ranging and enlightening overview of animal wonders, the authors devote several chapters to campaign against cruelty and exploitation. An impassioned plea for preserving animals lives.

Kirkus Reviews

Animals are our neighbors on this planetthis book shows how we can become better neighbors.

Alec Baldwin, Emmy-winning actor

Like me, Ingrid believes in protecting all the creatures we love.

Sir Paul McCartney, musician

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To Nanci Alexander, who is responsible for the happiness of so many animals that it is impossible to count them, and to the memory of Gurudev Chitrabhanuji, the late Jain master, who asked everyone to regard all living beings as our brothers and sisters

In the early 2000s, when I was working on my PhD in Neuroscience at UCLA, the world was a very different place. Our cell phones were just phones. Pluto was still considered a full-sized planet (tough break, Pluto!). Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus was still in business.

Twenty years isnt a long time in the grand scheme of the universe, but with technology and our 24-hour news cycle moving at warp speed, it feels as if we learn as much in a day as we once did in a year. And while it may sound trite, knowledge really is powerno matter how we receive it. Animalkind is a book that empowers readers with the knowledge to understand who animals are while dispelling the notion of what we assume animals are, and the power to change the way the world treats them.

As a neuroscientist and person who cares about animals, I seek to understand how we all think, feel, and communicate. Research in comparative neuroanatomy has fundamentally shifted the general scientific view of animals abilities, as well as the public conversation about animals. We share far more in common with our fellow animals than most of us are aware of. We once thought that advanced cognitive abilities were uniquely human, but we now know thats actually not true. Animals have their own ways of communicating with each other, playing together, learning with each other, andyes: loving each other.

The scientist in me appreciates Animalkind because its full of scientific studies, captivating data, and surprising facts about animal behavior. The vegan in me loves this book because it shows readers how easy and rewarding it is to navigate the world without harming animals. Eating decadent, rich food, sporting fashionable purses and clothing that look and feel like real leather, and experiencing entertainment on screen or under the big top can still be a part of your life. All without harming another living being in the process.

As a vegan mother who is also a scientist, I raise my boys to question things and not accept the world as it is simply because its convenient or easy or because everyone else is doing things a certain way. I teach them to be just and kind, and not complacent. I hope they grow up and continue to make life choices based on facts, but also on empathy. Animalkind is a book that can teach themand all of ushow to live this way. Ingrid and Gene, thank you for teaching us how multifaceted animals are and showing us how simple it is to treat them with the kindness and respect they deserve.

Mayim Bialik

The dog who jumps for joy when you come home. The emperor penguin guarding his child through a subzero blizzard. The dolphin smiling at us from the water. The sleepy cats purr of contentment. The manta rays intricate underwater ballets. The larks exquisite song. Animals delight, fascinate, and enrich human lives and thoughts every day of the year.