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02248nam a22002177a 4500 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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BDCtgAUW |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20250605192110.0 |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781982154462 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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BDCtgAUW |
| Transcribing agency |
BDCtgAUW |
| Modifying agency |
BDCtgAUW |
| 050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
QL763.5 .T66 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Toomey, David |
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Author |
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77379 |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Kingdom of Play: |
| Remainder of title |
What Ball-bouncing Octopuses, Belly-flopping Monkeys, and Mud-sliding Elephants Reveal about Life Itself |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
First Scribner hardcover edition. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Scribner, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2024 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
281 pages; |
| Dimensions |
24 cm |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
<br/>"For readers of Inside of a Dog and The Soul of an Octopus, a fascinating, charming, and revelatory look at the science behind why animals play that shows how life-at its most fundamental level-is playful. In Kingdom of Play, critically acclaimed science writer David Toomey takes us on a fast-paced and entertaining tour of playful animals and the scientists who study them. From octopuses on Australia's Great Barrier Reef to meerkats in the Kalahari Desert to brown bears on Alaska's Aleutian Islands, we follow adventurous researchers as they design and conduct experiments seeking answers to new, intriguing questions: When did play first appear in animals? How does play develop the brain, and how did it evolve? Are the songs and aerial acrobatics of birds the beginning of avian culture? Is fairness in dog play the foundation of canine ethics? And does play direct and possibly accelerate evolution? Monkeys belly-flop, dolphins tail-walk, elephants mud-slide, crows dive-bomb, and octopuses bounce balls. These activities are various, but all are play, and as Toomey explains, animal play can be seen as a distinct behavior-one that is ongoing and open-ended, purposeless and provisional-rather like natural selection. Through a close examination of both natural selection and play, Toomey argues that life itself is fundamentally playful. A globe-spanning journey and a scientific detective story filled with lively animal anecdotes, Kingdom of Play is an illuminating-and yes, playful-look at a little-known aspect of the animal kingdom" |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Play behavior in animals. |
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77380 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Evolution |
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8 |
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Papia Akter |
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8 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Library of Congress Classification |
| Koha item type |
Books |
| Suppress in OPAC |
No |