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For the very first time, a historian of technology draws proof from around the world to show how humans and other pets or animals are astonishingly similar when it comes to their thoughts and the ways that they lose their imagination. Charles Darwin developed his evolutionary theories by looking at physical distinctions in Galapagos finches and extravagant pigeons. Alfred Russell Wallace investigated a variety of creatures in the Malay Archipelago. Laurel Braitman got her lessons nearer to home - by seeing her dog. Oliver snapped at flies that only he could see, ate Ziploc handbags, bath towels, and cartons of eggs. He endured debilitating separation nervousness, was susceptible to aggression, and may even have attempted suicide. Her experience with Oliver obligated Laurel to recognize a kind of continuity between humans and other pets or animals that, first as a biology major and later as a PhD pupil at MIT, she'd never been trained in school. Nonhuman pets or animals can lose their imagination. And when they certainly, it often appears nearly the same as human mental health issues Thankfully, most of us can mend. As Laurel put in three years visiting the world in search of emotionally disturbed pets or animals and the people who look after them, she learned numerous reports of restoration: parrots that understand how to avoid plucking their feathers, pups that cease licking their tails raw, polar bears that stop going swimming in compulsive circles, and great apes that benefit from the help of human being psychiatrists. Just how do these animals retrieve? The same manner we do: with love, with medicine, and most importantly, with the knowledge that someone understands why we suffer from and what can make us feel better. After all the digging in the archives of museums and zoos, the years synthesizing scientific literature, and the time watching dog parks, animals encounters, and amusement parks, Laurel found that understanding the psychological distress of pets or animals can help us better understand ourselves.
