Desmond Morris

Catwatching: The Essential Guide To Cat Behaviour (2002)

I pretentiously started to read this book thinking I knew everything I needed to know about cats but of course I was wrong, and the curious stuff I could learn, are the following:- Cats scratch on sofas/ carpets, chairs bla bla to strip off the old worn-out claw shealths to reveal the new claws b...

The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal (1999)

Morris makes a great song and dance about the 'outrage' with which his book was first received. Why are people so resistant to contemplating, in the cool light of scientific 'objectivity', their 'animal nature', he asks. However, Morris' claim to neutrality is highly suspect; he urges us to learn...

The Human Zoo: A Zoologist's Study of the Urban Animal (1994)

I read this book shortly after reading the naked ape. I thought it was a great book. The human animal acts just like the animals it claims to be "superior to". In SuperFreakeconomics .... the economist started using money on the monkeys .... once they learned the coins had value ..., the femal...

El mono desnudo (2003)