“Combines accessible prose with solid science. . . . Networking, it turns out, isn’t merely a cliché for twenty-first-century social-media climbers. Many animal species—perhaps most—do it just fine without Facebook, X or cellphones. It’s noteworthy that even as loneliness in our own species has been increasingly recognized as a modern problem, network analysis among animals has revealed that deeper, stronger bonds generally result in longer lifespans. These networks cover a range of activities, including dominance interactions, vocal communication, migration, food-finding, alarm-calling, gesturing, mate selection and cultural transmission—pretty much anything that animals do, most of which have deep resonance for the lives of human beings as well. . . . Reader, I connected with this book and I think there’s a good chance you will, too."
