Sentinels
How Animals Warn Us of Disease
$56.38
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
13 August 2026
Summary
Humans have long observed animals for advanced warnings of danger. What can they tell us about the growing threat of viruses and other infectious organisms in the age of climate change?
Coronaviruses jump from bats to chimpanzees to humans. You can give your cat the flu, and pass tuberculosis to an elephant. The scientific term for this — zoonosis — is a word of the future, one that reveals how human and animal lives are inextricably linked. For scientists now warn th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781917189330 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1917189338 |
| Author: | Michael Dulaney |
| Publisher: | Scribe Publications |
| Imprint: | Scribe Publications |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 13 August 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 153mm |
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About The Author
Michael Dulaney
Michael Dulaney’s writing explores humanity’s links with the rest of non-human nature in the climate crisis. He was a reporter at the ABC for more than a decade, and his environment writing has been published by The Monthly, Literary Hub, The Big Issue, and the BBC, among others. He won the Overland Fair Australia Prize and was a 2024 Climate Futures Fellow at the State Library Victoria.
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