Do It Like an Animal

Her heart beats 632 times per minute. She sings love songs at 80,000 Hz - four times higher than humans can hear. She squeezes through a gap the width of a pencil. She maps an entire building in 48 hours. And she's colonized every continent except Antarctica - not by being strong, but by being small, fast, and impossible to stop.

In Do It Like an Animal: Relationship Advice from Mice, Duktor Anamel Magnis Tsom - your otterly qualified Advisor of Wild & Domesticated Affection - decodes the most underestimated creature on earth into strategies for building connections that survive anything.

Inside you'll discover:

• Why a mouse's heart beats 632 times per minute - and what response speed does for trust
• How mice build nests from thousands of fragments - and what daily maintenance does for a relationship
• Why male mice sing ultrasonic love songs - and what communication effort signals to your partner's brain
• How mice share food locations through scent trails - and why generosity builds networks that feed you back
• Why a mouse can squeeze through a pencil-width gap - and what flexibility does during conflict
• How mice dig tunnel systems with multiple emergency exits - and why redundancy isn't distrust
• Why mice huddle closer when things get hard - and what proximity does for cortisol recovery
• How mice recognize and remember over 30 colony members - and why being remembered is the deepest form of love