THIS IS HOW ANIMALS LIV

With the rigour of National Geographic and the emotional force of The Lion King: ten stories of instinct, love and survival in the wild

In nature, there are no heroes. There is no justice. There is life,death, hunger, fear, instinct — and, sometimes, loyalty, love and second chances.
In This Is How Animals Live, biologist and science communicator Mario Alonso Santamaría turns animal behaviour into ten powerful stories of survival, narrated with the pace of adventure fiction and the rigour of scientific observation. From chimpanzees fighting for power in Gombe to wolves crossing
the wilds of northern Spain, from king cobras in India to orcas cooperating with humans in Australia, each story places the reader inside the mind and body of a wild animal facing the most decisive moments of its life.
Some of these stories are based on real animals; others are fictional narratives built from documented behaviour. In every case, the aim is the same: to show nature not from a human point of view, but from within the animal world itself — where every movement, alliance, mistake or hesitation can mean survival or death.
Cruel, moving and cinematic, this book combines biology,emotion and storytelling to reveal a wild world much closer to us than we might think: a world of mothers who risk everything for their young, rivals who fight for territory,packs that depend on loyalty, solitary predators that learn to survive, and animals whose lives are shaped by memory,strategy, hierarchy and bonds.

What if we could see the world through the eyes of animals?
An unforgettable journey into the animal mind