Wild Health: How Animals Keep Themselves Will and What We Can Learn from Them by Engel, Cindy
Wild Health: How Animals Keep Themselves Will and What We Can Learn from Them by Engel, Cindy

Wild Health: How Animals Keep Themselves Will and What We Can Learn from Them

As Dr. Engel emphasizes in this "enticing, well-referenced, [and] entertaining book" (Science), we can learn a lot...
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Author: Cindy Engel
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Wild Health: How Animals Keep Themselves Will and What We Can Learn from Them by Engel, Cindy

Wild Health: How Animals Keep Themselves Will and What We Can Learn from Them

$48.30
Wild Health: How Animals Keep Themselves Will and What We Can Learn from Them by Engel, Cindy

Wild Health: How Animals Keep Themselves Will and What We Can Learn from Them

$48.30
Author: Cindy Engel
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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As Dr. Engel emphasizes in this "enticing, well-referenced, [and] entertaining book" (Science), we can learn a lot about human health by studying animal behavior in the wild. Indeed, some of the natural, holistic, and alternative human medicine being practiced today arose through the observation of wild animals. In this groundbreaking work, Dr. Engel points out fascinating parallels between animal and human medicine. She offers intriguing examples of how animals prevent and cure sickness and poisonings, heal open wounds, balance their diets, and regulate fertility. For instance,

*chimpanzees carefully eat bitter-tasting plant "medicines" that counter intestinal parasites *elephants roam miles to find the clay they ingest to counter dietary toxins *broken-legged chicks have been known to eat analgesic foods that alleviate pain.

By observing wild health we may discover (or rediscover) ways to benefit our own health. As Craig Stotlz of the Washington Post noted, this "highly readable assessment . . . triggers more outside-the-double-helix thoughts about human health than anything I've read recently."

Author: Cindy Engel
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 03/19/2003
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.72w x 0.76d
ISBN: 9780618340682

About the Author
Engel, Cindy: - Cindy Engel has a Ph.D. in biology from the University of East Anglia, with a concentration on the relationship between physiology and behavior in animals. She has done research on the behavior and health of wild rabbits and jaguars and for twelve years has been a lecturer in environmental sciences at the Open University. She has published numerous scientific papers, particularly in the prestigious journal Animal Behaviour, and for the past eighteen months has worked as a script writer and science advisor for a series of wildlife documentaries being produced by National Geographic. In addition to her research into the medicinal practices of animals, she has studied holistic medicine for humans and is a Shiatsu practitioner. She has two children, lives on a farm in Suffolk, and is not quite forty.
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