Animal books that other ZooChatters should read

[CheeseChameleon1945]

The most important things that come to my mind from having read that (now somewhat dated) book and now living through Covid-19 is that Sars-Cov2/Covid-19 has quite a few characteristics of the worst-case scenarios or "The Next Big One" pandemic discussed in the book, that there are some disturbing parallels between past pandemics and the current, such as governments trying to cover things up, and that collectively and at the political and economic level we really haven't learned anything from past pandemics and warnings (such as Ebola, Sars and Mers), and that we really will have to make some changes this time to prevent another pandemic in the future.

Indeed. And studies show that the more we drive ourselves into wild animal habitats, the more pandemics like this one could spark, as the illegal wildlife trade have showed us this.

 

[Onychorhynchus coronatus]

I haven't read the book but it sounds like it got something right.

You should definitely have a read of it if you get the chance, one of the best popular science books I've read and very pertinent for what we are currently living right now.