Zoobiquity
Barbara Natterson-Horowitz
ISBN: | 9780307989512 |
Publisher: | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
Published: | 12 June, 2012 |
Format: | Audiobook |
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Zoobiquity
Barbara Natterson-Horowitz
In the spring of 2005, cardiologist Barbara Natterson-Horowitz was called to consult on an unusual patient: an Emperor tamarin at the Los Angeles Zoo. While examining the tiny monkey's sick heart, she learned that wild animals can die of a form of cardiac arrest brought on by extreme emotional stress. It was a syndrome identical to a human condition but one that veterinarians called by a different name-and treated in innovative ways. This remarkable medical parallel launched Natterson-Horowitz
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