The Power of Sloth is Lucy Cooke's celebration of the sloth: the cutest, cuddliest, slowest creature on this planet. In the book she brings together some truly adorable pictures of baby sloths, literally by the bucketful. These delightful, funny pictures are accompanied by a simple text which tells you all about sloths and why we should protect them. We also discover all about the work of the Avarios sloth sanctuary, which, along with the ZSL EDGE programme to protect the pygmy sloth, receives some of the proceeds from this book. Lucy is a National Geographic explorer, TED talker, New York Times best-selling author, founder of the Sloth Appreciation Society, award-winning documentary filmmaker and presenter with a Masters in zoology from Oxford university. She has a worldwide following with her YouTube videos of sloths and her Discovery Channel show Meet the Sloths. Lucy has presented a number of primetime series in the UK for BBC 1 (Talk to the Animals, Nature's Boldest Thieves, Animals Unexpected, Nature's Miracle Orphans and Ingenious Animals) and ITV (Amazing Animal Births).Find out More about what she does on http://www.slothville.com/ and http://www.lucycooke.tv/

What does it mean to be female? Mother, carer, the weaker sex? Think again.In the last few decades a revolution has been brewing in zoology and evolutionary biology. Lucy Cooke introduces us to a riotous cast of animals, and the scientists studying them, that are redefining the female of the species.Meet the female lemurs of Madagascar, our ancient primate cousins that dominate the males of their species physically and politically.Or female albatross couples, hooking up together to raise their chicks in Hawaii.Or the meerkat mothers of the Kalahari Desert - the most murderous mammals on the planet.The bitches in BITCH overturn outdated binary expectations of bodies, brains, biology and behaviour. Lucy Cooke''s brilliant new book will change how you think - about sex, sexual identity and sexuality in animals and also the very forces that shape evolution.''A dazzling, funny and elegantly angry demolition of our preconceptions about female behaviour and sex in the animal kingdom ... Bitch is a blast. I read it, my jaw sagging in astonishment, jotting down favourite parts to send to friends and reading out snippets gleefully'' THE OBSERVER''Beautifully written, very funny and deeply important - Lucy Cooke blows two centuries of sexist myths right out of biology.'' PROFESSOR ALICE ROBERTSPraise for Lucy''s previous book THE UNEXPECTED TRUTH ABOUT ANIMALS''Endlessly fascinating'' - Bill Bryson''A fabulous read'' - Sue Perkins''I cannot remember when I enjoyed a non-fiction book so much'' - Daily Express''A joy from beginning to end'' - Guardian''Best science pick: deeply researched, sassily written'' - Nature© Lucy Cooke 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

The Power of Sloth is Lucy Cooke's celebration of the sloth: the cutest, cuddliest, slowest creature on this planet. In the book she brings together some truly adorable pictures of baby sloths, literally by the bucketful. These delightful, funny pictures are accompanied by a simple text which tells you all about sloths and why we should protect them. We also discover all about the work of the Avarios sloth sanctuary, which, along with the ZSL EDGE programme to protect the pygmy sloth, receives some of the proceeds from this book. Lucy is a National Geographic explorer, TED talker, New York Times best-selling author, founder of the Sloth Appreciation Society, award-winning documentary filmmaker and presenter with a Masters in zoology from Oxford university. She has a worldwide following with her YouTube videos of sloths and her Discovery Channel show Meet the Sloths. Lucy has presented a number of primetime series in the UK for BBC 1 (Talk to the Animals, Nature's Boldest Thieves, Animals Unexpected, Nature's Miracle Orphans and Ingenious Animals) and ITV (Amazing Animal Births).Find out More about what she does on http://www.slothville.com/ and http://www.lucycooke.tv/

What does it mean to be female? Mother, carer, the weaker sex? Think again.In the last few decades a revolution has been brewing in zoology and evolutionary biology. Lucy Cooke introduces us to a riotous cast of animals, and the scientists studying them, that are redefining the female of the species.Meet the female lemurs of Madagascar, our ancient primate cousins that dominate the males of their species physically and politically.Or female albatross couples, hooking up together to raise their chicks in Hawaii.Or the meerkat mothers of the Kalahari Desert - the most murderous mammals on the planet.The bitches in BITCH overturn outdated binary expectations of bodies, brains, biology and behaviour. Lucy Cooke''s brilliant new book will change how you think - about sex, sexual identity and sexuality in animals and also the very forces that shape evolution.''A dazzling, funny and elegantly angry demolition of our preconceptions about female behaviour and sex in the animal kingdom ... Bitch is a blast. I read it, my jaw sagging in astonishment, jotting down favourite parts to send to friends and reading out snippets gleefully'' THE OBSERVER''Beautifully written, very funny and deeply important - Lucy Cooke blows two centuries of sexist myths right out of biology.'' PROFESSOR ALICE ROBERTSPraise for Lucy''s previous book THE UNEXPECTED TRUTH ABOUT ANIMALS''Endlessly fascinating'' - Bill Bryson''A fabulous read'' - Sue Perkins''I cannot remember when I enjoyed a non-fiction book so much'' - Daily Express''A joy from beginning to end'' - Guardian''Best science pick: deeply researched, sassily written'' - Nature© Lucy Cooke 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022