Absurd-but-True Animal Stories Audiobook By Kyla Colby cover art

Absurd-but-True Animal Stories

Preview
LIMITED TIME OFFER

3 months free
Try for $0.00
Offer ends July 31, 2025 at 11:59PM PT.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for $14.95/mo after 3 months. Cancel anytime.

Absurd-but-True Animal Stories

By: Kyla Colby
Narrated by: Jeanie Talbot
Try for $0.00

$0.00/mo. after 3 months. Offer ends July 31, 2025 at 11:59PM PT. Cancel anytime.

Buy for $6.95

Buy for $6.95

Confirm purchase
Pay using card ending in
By confirming your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use, License, and Amazon's Privacy Notice. Taxes where applicable.
Cancel

Who is more absurd? Animals or the humans who try to make sense of them?

This collection features more than 15 cute, newsy, and fun animal stories!

Snag a copy of Absurd-but-True Animal Stories to hear these stories:

  • Can a gorilla be too handsome?
  • The birds and the bees, as taught to pandas
  • Manbearpigs gone wild
  • Your dog is time-traveling without you
  • Charlie and the elephant nature factory
  • Cock-a-doodle-don’t
  • Bower eye for the bird guy
  • And many more!

These stories are collected from Animailya, an email newsletter that ran from 2015 to 2017. Animailya was once featured as the Forward of the Week by TinyLetter.

Scroll up and click “Buy Now” to get your paws on this collection of silly animal stories!

©2018 Kyla Colby (P)2018 Kyla Colby
Pets & Animal Care Funny Witty

Listeners also enjoyed...

Green Eggs and Ham Audiobook By Dr. Seuss cover art
Green Eggs and Ham By: Dr. Seuss
Legend of the A**hole Squirrel Audiobook By Seth Chambers cover art
Legend of the A**hole Squirrel By: Seth Chambers
Remarkably Bright Creatures Audiobook By Shelby Van Pelt cover art
Remarkably Bright Creatures By: Shelby Van Pelt
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Audiobook By Washington Irving cover art
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow By: Washington Irving
Ridiculous! Audiobook By D.L. Carter cover art
Ridiculous! By: D.L. Carter
Done for the Best Audiobook By Amy D'Orazio cover art
Done for the Best By: Amy D'Orazio
Rhett & Link's Book of Mythicality Audiobook By Rhett McLaughlin, Link Neal cover art
Rhett & Link's Book of Mythicality By: Rhett McLaughlin, and others
Where the Hell Is Tesla? Audiobook By Rob Dircks cover art
Where the Hell Is Tesla? By: Rob Dircks
The House Witch: A Humorous Romantic Fantasy Audiobook By Delemhach cover art
The House Witch: A Humorous Romantic Fantasy By: Delemhach
Halloween Party Book Set Audiobook By James Livingood cover art
Halloween Party Book Set By: James Livingood
Miniatures Audiobook By John Scalzi cover art
Miniatures By: John Scalzi
Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down Audiobook By Dave Barry cover art
Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down By: Dave Barry
I Am a Pole (And So Can You!) Audiobook By Stephen Colbert cover art
I Am a Pole (And So Can You!) By: Stephen Colbert
Mark Twain Quotes of Wit and Wisdom Audiobook By Stan Hardy cover art
Mark Twain Quotes of Wit and Wisdom By: Stan Hardy
Rescuing Riley, Saving Myself Audiobook By Zachary Anderegg, Pete Nelson cover art
Rescuing Riley, Saving Myself By: Zachary Anderegg, and others
The United States of Absurdity Audiobook By Dave Anthony, Gareth Reynolds, Patton Oswalt - foreword cover art
The United States of Absurdity By: Dave Anthony, and others
The Wrong Unit Audiobook By Rob Dircks cover art
The Wrong Unit By: Rob Dircks
Birds of Pandemonium Audiobook By Michele Raffin cover art
Birds of Pandemonium By: Michele Raffin
Beyond Words Audiobook By Carl Safina cover art
Beyond Words By: Carl Safina
New Teeth Audiobook By Simon Rich cover art
New Teeth By: Simon Rich
Entertaining Stories • Cute Animal Tales • Humorous Content • Easy Listening • Family-friendly Material • Wonderful Job
Highly rated for:
Most relevant  
This is a fun and engaging collection of animal stories. Many different animals are included in these quick stories. Alongside the silly and lightheartedness of this collection there is also a message to take care and to be kind to animals. Narrator Jeanie Talbot makes listening to this book fun and entertaining.

I received this audiobook at my request and I voluntarily wrote a review.

Absurd-but-True Animal Stories

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

Short "fun facts". Silly at times. You will learn as you laugh and snicker. "I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review." Get Absurd-but-True Animal Stories only if you are looking for a giggle.

Absurd?

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

As I grow older, I find myself seeking the things that help keep me sane in this world of ours. And that has seen my social media feeds change from discourse and arguments, to a lot more animal videos. When I saw this I felt it was the perfect opportunity to hear some out-there and potentially hilarious stories about animals. It was.

Essentially the verbal version of a list of short anecdotes and stories and some goofiness, it was definitely entertaining and scratched the itch that I wanted scratched. I enjoyed the fact that the author and subsequently the narrator gave in to the fact that the stories were silly in some cases, but managed to hold onto the fact that there were some small areas of seriousness about being good to animals and protecting them and the sad fact that some species' survival is entirely in our hands.

I received the review code for this audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this honest review.

Entertaining Diversion

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

OMG This audiobook is too cute for words!
Loved all the cute, quirky stories, made for a very enjoyable listen.

It'll surely make you smile. Definitely worth a checkout!

I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.
Please take a moment to click the "YES" ("Helpful") button below if you found this review helpful :) Thank you!

DOWN RIGHT CUTE!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

I listened to this with my 10 year old and we were both laughing out loud and enjoyed this so much! Great stories for any animal lover! Narration was really well done!

I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

Adorable!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

Was fun to listen to this great narrator relay these interesting little stories. I am not normally into short stories but this was a definite exception to this rule.

note: I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

Very Entertaining

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

Absurd-but-True Animal Stories was indeed what the title says. They were interesting and animals are so funny in whatever they do. I love animals so much as they give unconditional love. It was a nice collection compiled by Kyla Colby. I wish it had been longer. There were a few stories I enjoyed more than others but all were pretty cute.

Jeanie Talbot's narration was okay albeit at times a little raucous to the point it was distracting. This was only with a few stories. She had a great voice when she wasn't over inflecting. I'd still listen to both author and reader.

I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review

Absurdly Cute Short Tales or Tails

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

This book is for me a go to when I want something easy to listen to. I love animals and found the stories funny and interesting. Would definitely recommend this..

I was given this free audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

Cute stories!!!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

A compilation of cute animal stories. Some were very informative and others were just plain humorous. An enjoyable quick listen.

I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and I have voluntarily left this review.

Interesting Animal tales...

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

I wasn't quite sure what to expect from this when I got it, but I was pleasantly surprised. I listened to one of these stories a day probably, and they were great little diversions that made me smile or laugh daily. Not only are they entertaining escapes with animal-centric shenanigans, but they even managed to let me learn some things along the way. The narration is fun and Jeanie Talbot really gets into telling these absurd tales and makes a performance out of them (she can really channel the excited pet voice in my head). Thought this listen was a lot of fun and I can see myself revisiting some of these to just make me smile again in the future.

I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and I have voluntarily left this review.

Cute shorts for quick little escapes

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

See more reviews