Un tigre du Bengale, qui barbote anxieusement dans une petite piscine en plastique durant l' t et que l'on nourrit de viande de supermarch , est-il toujours un tigre? En examinant l'existence troubl e d'animaux r put s sauvages, mais vivant d sormais de conditions domestiques et artificielles puissantes, ce livre pose la double question de la communication et de l'animalit .

La vie accident e de ces animaux trafiqu s transpire nos changements cologiques actuels, incarne la disparition vertigineuse d'esp ces animales et renvoie la d t rioration acc l r e d'habitats naturels.

Dans ce livre, on d couvre des biographies animales, comme celle d'un chimpanz cobaye (Rachel) voluant dans un sanctuaire vang lisateur ou encore, celle d'un dauphin (Nellie) au ch mage , mis aux ench res apr s la faillite du parc d'attraction qui l'a vu na tre et grandir. Mises en r sonance, chacune de ces biographies compose un v ritable bestiaire d' tres qui pourraient sembler provenir d'histoires fictives abracadabrantesques et qui, pourtant, sont tout sauf imaginaires. Voil qui permet de reposer, autrement, la vieille question de l'esp ce.

Ce livre est publi en fran ais.

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If a Bengal tiger anxiously splashes around in a small plastic pool in the summer and feeds on supermarket meat, is it still a tiger? By examining the troubled existence of so-called wild animals now living under overwhelmingly domestic and artificial conditions, this book raises the dual question of communication and animality.

The turbulent lives of these trafficked animals reflect current ecological changes, embody the precipitous disappearance of animal species, and denote the accelerated deterioration of natural habitats.

This book presents animal biographies, such as that of a former laboratory chimpanzee (Rachel) now living in an evangelizing sanctuary, or that of an "unemployed" dolphin (Nellie) put up for auction after the amusement park where it was born and raised went bankrupt. Echoing one another, these biographies make up a bestiary of beings that seem to have leapt from grotesque fiction. Yet, they are anything but imaginary. And thus the age-old question of species is raised once again, albeit in an entirely different fashion than before.

This book is published in French.