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How a Celebrated Scientist Wound Up With a Whoodle for a Pet

Tracie Hotchner

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#980A: Jay Ingram displays a smorgasbord of ideas in his book “The Science of Pets,” making clear why he is so highly celebrated in his native Canada, with his particularly sassy style of combining deeply researched science with highly personal ideas and conclusions about what pets are, why we keep them and what they can tell us about our own species.