“Growing older with the people I love makes me happy.”
― The Penguin Lessons
― The Penguin Lessons
“We are all culturally conditioned to interpret the world within a framework of understanding that’s both deeply ingrained and highly personal.”
― Bitch: On the Female of the Species
― Bitch: On the Female of the Species
“Natural selection will favour young mothers, who have less stake in the success of the wider group, who aggressively compete for limited resources. This prediction was borne out by the observation that when orca mothers and daughters bred simultaneously, calves born to older mothers were almost twice as likely to die in the first fifteen years of life as those born to the younger mothers.”
― Bitch: On the Female of the Species
― Bitch: On the Female of the Species
“As with so many of our assertions about what animals can and cannot do, being very sure of something tends to come right before discovering you're wrong.”
― How to Speak Whale: The Power and Wonder of Listening to Animals
― How to Speak Whale: The Power and Wonder of Listening to Animals
“Proposed in 1998, it posits that females who step out of the reproductive rat race mid-life and focus their energies on supporting their children (and grandchildren), instead of squeezing out yet more babies, significantly increase their offspring’s chances of survival and, in turn, their own genetic legacy.”
― Bitch: On the Female of the Species
― Bitch: On the Female of the Species
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