Thinking about how they think
Francis Gooding, 16 February 2017
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
by Frans de Waal.
Granta, 340 pp., £14.99, September 2016,978 1 78378 304 5 Show More
by Frans de Waal.
Granta, 340 pp., £14.99, September 2016,
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate
by Peter Wohlleben, translated by Jane Billinghurst.
Greystone, 272 pp., £16.99, September 2016,978 1 77164 248 4 Show More
by Peter Wohlleben, translated by Jane Billinghurst.
Greystone, 272 pp., £16.99, September 2016,
“... and his refusal to peddle scientistic obscurities when everyday language was perfectly adequate. Peter Wohlleben’s The Hidden Life of Trees takes a similar line when it comes to describing the behaviour of trees, but unlike de Waal Wohlleben is not a professional scientist. He is a forester who has worked with ... ”
