Research Catalog

Title

Wildhood : the epic journey from adolescence to adulthood in humans and other animals / Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers.

Author

Natterson-Horowitz, Barbara

Publication

• New York : Scribner, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

Bowers, Kathryn

Description

xii, 354 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

• "In their critically acclaimed bestseller, Zoobiquity, the authors revealed the essential connection between human and animal health. In Wildhood, they turn the same eye-opening, species-spanning lens to adolescent young adult life. Traveling around the world and drawing from their latest research, they find that the same four universal challenges are faced by every adolescent human and animal on earth: how to be safe, how to navigate hierarchy; how to court potential mates; and how to feed oneself. Safety. Status. Sex. Self-reliance. How human and animal adolescents and young adults confront the challenges of wildhood shapes their adult destinies"--
• "Trekking the globe and drawing from their latest research, Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers discovered that all animals and humans on the journey to adulthood face four core challenges: how to stay safe, negotiate status, navigate sexuality, and cultivate self-reliance. How human and animal adolescents meet these challenges shapes their adult destinies. They illuminate these four challenges through the real-life experiences of four wild animals tracked by scientists around the world. Through their stories and those of countless others, from rebellious eagles and stressed-out high schoolers to thrill-seeking orcas and malleable young soldiers, readers get a game-changing portrait of adolescents as planetwide tribe sharing behaviors and challenges, setbacks and triumphs"--

Subjects

• Puberty > Animal models
• Adolescence
• Psychology, Comparative
• Adolescent psychology
• Animal psychology
• Animal life cycles
• Mammals
• Parent and teenager

Note

• "September 2019"--Title page verso.
• The four challenges of adolescence seen through the experiences of four wild animals: Ursula, a king penguin; Shrink, a spotted hyena; Salt, a North Atlantic humpback whale; and Slavc, a European wolf.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical resources (pages 279-330) and index.

Contents

Prologue -- Part I. Safety. 1. Dangerous days ; 2. The nature of fear ; 3. Knowing your predators ; 4. The self-confident fish ; 5. School for survival -- Part II. Status. 6. The age of assessment ; 7. The rules of groups ; 8. Privileged creatures ; 9. The pain of social descent ; 10. The power of an ally -- Part III. Sex. 11. Animal romance ; 12. Desire & restraint ; 13. The first time ; 14. Coercion & consent -- Part IV. Self-reliance. 15. Learning to launch ; 16. Making a living ; 17. The great alone ; 18. Finding a self -- Epilogue.

Call Number

JFE 20-1468

ISBN

• 9781501164699
• 1501164694

LCCN

2018278391

OCLC

1085158209

Author

Natterson-Horowitz, Barbara, author.

Title

Wildhood : the epic journey from adolescence to adulthood in humans and other animals / Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers.

Publisher

New York : Scribner, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Edition

First Scribner hardcover edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical resources (pages 279-330) and index.

Added Author

Bowers, Kathryn, author.

Research Call Number

JFE 20-1468