At its heart, "Wild Thoughts" is an animal photography book that—through pairing images with imagined internal dialogue—parodies the ever-popular bookstore staple: the wildlife photography coffee table book. It is intended to be simultaneously read as a comedy piece and as a visual study of (at times bizarre) animal behavior. The physical edition of the book was designed to closely emulate the typical coffee table book, with its fabric-wrapped hardcover enclosed in a glossy case cover, complete with details on the spine and back such as reviews, a barcode, and a list of fictional books coming soon from the same author/creator (soon-to-be-classics like "Wild Thoughts 2: Revenge of the CAA Agents").
As for the original idea behind the book, I give you this excerpt from the book's Foreword (which I wrote as 'Dr. Barnes N. Noble'): "We anthropomorphize with the assumption that these...creatures do not think like we do—that is why anthropomorphizing is a practice of pretending. But the truth is, humans are not that different from animals. As much as we would like to think of ourselves as evolved beings, it is an indisputable fact that humans are animals...And in many ways, these distant relatives of ours behave just like we do."
