The Unexpected Truth About Animals: Brilliant natural history, starring lovesick hippos, stoned sloths, exploding bats and frogs in taffeta trousers...: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Unexpected Truth About Animals: Brilliant natural history, starring lovesick hippos, stoned sloths, exploding bats and frogs in taffeta trousers... runs 10.5 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Lucy Cooke (about 7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 10.5 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
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| 30 min / day | 21 days |
| 1 hour / day | 11 days |
| 2 hours / day | 6 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 7 days |
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What our data says
- At 10.5 hours, it runs longer than 81% of the 4,073 Animals & Nature (Non-Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Lucy Cooke
Lucy Cooke narrates 5 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 49 hours in all.
About as long, on the Animals & Nature (Non-Fiction) shelf
634 Animals & Nature (Non-Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
The Unexpected Truth About Animals: Brilliant natural history, starring lovesick hippos, stoned sloths, exploding bats and frogs in taffeta trousers... is an audiobook by Lucy Cooke: a 10.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Lucy Cooke, released November 30, 2017, on the Animals & Nature (Non-Fiction) shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 10.5 hrs
- Narrated by
- Lucy Cooke
- Released
- November 30, 2017
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Animals & Nature (Non-Fiction)
- ISBN
- 9781473542129
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Unexpected Truth About Animals: Brilliant natural history, starring lovesick hippos, stoned sloths, exploding bats and frogs in taffeta trousers... as an audiobook?
The Unexpected Truth About Animals: Brilliant natural history, starring lovesick hippos, stoned sloths, exploding bats and frogs in taffeta trousers... runs 10.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 7 hours.
Is The Unexpected Truth About Animals: Brilliant natural history, starring lovesick hippos, stoned sloths, exploding bats and frogs in taffeta trousers... free as an audiobook?
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Who narrates The Unexpected Truth About Animals: Brilliant natural history, starring lovesick hippos, stoned sloths, exploding bats and frogs in taffeta trousers...?
The Unexpected Truth About Animals: Brilliant natural history, starring lovesick hippos, stoned sloths, exploding bats and frogs in taffeta trousers... is narrated by Lucy Cooke.
Is The Unexpected Truth About Animals: Brilliant natural history, starring lovesick hippos, stoned sloths, exploding bats and frogs in taffeta trousers... worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 7 hours, saving 3.5 hours.