Nature Is Never Silent

‘It’s always amazing how talkative nature is — very enlightening and entertaining!’

* Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees *

‘In accessible language [Ziege] reports on fascinatingly clever chemical communication among bacteria; tells how wild rabbits coordinate and how badgers warn their enemies … Mushrooms set traps, fish lie, and fox and fir tree say goodnight. Illuminating brain food.’

* OÖ news *

‘Communication between animals and plants takes on a whole new dimension.’

* Mittagzmagazin *

‘In the forest and in your own garden, things are … anything but quiet and calm, as Madlen Ziege, in a light and entertaining way, and using astonishing scientific knowledge, shows us.’

* Kronen Zeitung *

‘Ziege has an engaging style, and, for a book dealing with difficult concepts, Nature Is Never Silent makes for a pleasurable read … The author includes some of her own charming black and white illustrations — some people are just too talented! I thoroughly recommend this book to anyone who has listened to birds in the bush, and wondered what the sounds mean.’

– Penelope Cottier * The Canberra Times *

Madlen Ziege studied biology in Potsdam, Berlin, and Australia. For her doctorate at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, she studied the communicational behaviour of wild rabbits in urban and rural areas. She works as a behavioural biologist at the University of Potsdam and inspires people of all ages for scientific research with her science slams.

Alexandra Roesch is a bicultural, bilingual freelance translator based in Frankfurt, Germany. An experienced translator of fiction and nonfiction, she has an MA in translation from the University of Bristol and was longlisted for the 2018 Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize.