dr. doolittle more than makes up for it by his anti-speciesism. >> so dr. doolittle as you point out in the essay he gets into fixes over and over again. and which he's helped out of them by other animal manies. who figure things out what he needs, and sort of form webs of rescue for him. >> yes. so he can talk to a nonhuman animal and that's really the plot of all -- all of the stories and everything turn on this one trick that he has. sort of like good science fiction where you alter one thing and then everything else follows from that. >> so it struck me reading it had this in the last couple of year had quite a number of best selling books and some of them very good, for example, a book called beyond words by karl who was a wonderful marine biologist but called of the soul octopus by cy months gom rei a wonderful science writer, and they're focused on animal conscienceness, and as karl says you know animals care about their own life. they want to increase their own life, and they care about it furthering their own life just the way you and i do. and, of