Author: Marc Bekoff
Translator: Mi-ok Kim
Publisher: Sigma Books
Hardcover | 264 pages | 223*152mm
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About This Book
A Leading
Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy - and Why They Matter
Based on award-winning scientist Marc Bekoff’s years studying social
communication in a wide range of species, this important book shows that animals
have rich emotional lives. Bekoff skillfully blends extraordinary stories of
animal joy, empathy, grief, embarrassment, anger, and love with the latest
scientific research confirming the existence of emotions that common sense and
experience have long implied. Filled with Bekoff’s light humor and touching
stories, The Emotional Lives of Animals is a clarion call for reassessing both
how we view animals and how we treat them.
"As a boy studying Buddhism in Tibet, I was taught the importance of a caring
attitude toward others. Such a practice of nonviolence applies to all sentient
beings -- any living thing that has a mind. Where there is a mind, there are
feelings such as pain, pleasure, and joy. No sentient beings want pain; instead
all want happiness. Since we all share these feelings at some basic level, as
rational human beings we have an obligation to contribute in whatever way we can
to the happiness of other species and try our best to relieve their fears and
sufferings. I firmly believe that the more we care for the happiness of others,
the greater our own sense of well-being becomes, therefore I welcome Marc
Bekoff's book The Emotional Lives of Animals."
-- His Holiness the Dalai Lama
"Move over Darwin. And prepare to be moved. In The Emotional Lives of Animals,
world-class scientist Marc Bekoff argues forcefully that our emotions are the
gifts of our animal ancestors. Bekoff's new book itself is a gift that invites
us to explore and appreciate the passionate lives of animals. Weaving in the
latest scientific data about empathic mice and elephants suffering from PTSD
with wonderful stories about laughing dogs and pissy baboons, Bekoff's
forward-looking book offers both an explanation and an ethical compass that
opens the door for hope in the ways in which we interact with other animals."
-- Dr. Marty Becker, resident veterinarian on Good Morning America and author of
The Healing Power of Pets
"Marc Bekoff is one of those rare scientists who can talk real sense about
animals because he is aware of being an animal himself. Read this wonderful
book."
-- Mary Midgley, author of Animals and Why They Matter and The Ethical Primate
"An extraordinary, intelligent, and valuable book about a subject one might be
forgiven for thinking taboo since it is so absent from discussion: an
exploration of the other animals' feelings, the emotional makeup we share with
them yet often do not know exists, forget entirely, deliberately ignore or
casually disregard. Here we see animals, whole and complete, thinking their
not-so-private thoughts, grieving, loving, jumping for joy, and fleeing that
which is painful or upsetting and it makes us think about who they are and what
our impact is and can be on their lives. Marc Bekoff captures not only poignant
incidents of the animals' emotions as evidenced by observations and pure
commonsense, but brings to each discovery his own vital repertoire of human
emotion and expression. A glorious, moving, important book to enjoy and share."
-- Ingrid Newkirk, cofounder and president of People for the Ethical Treatment
of Animals (PETA)
"A thought-provoking, compassionate, and scholarly work from one of the world's
most eminent behavioral scientists."
-- Dr. Ian Dunbar, founder of The Association of Pet Dog Trainers and author of
Before & After Getting Your Puppy
"In clear and convincing language, Mark Bekoff provides rational defense for
what many of us already sense -- that animals can feel sorrow, joy, anger, and
pleasure much as we humans do. Bekoff proves that this idea is not only
compatible with the fact of evolution, but it is required by it. Once it
considers the argument of this finely argued book, science will never be the
same."
-- Dr David Rothenberg, professor of philosophy, New Jersey Institute of
Technology and author of Why Birds Sing and Sudden Music
"In The Emotional Lives of Animals, Marc Bekoff has pulled together the growing
body of scientific evidence that supports the existence of a variety of emotions
in other animals, richly illustrated by his own careful observations. He
suggests that it is a waste of time even to ask if chimpanzees, elephants, dogs,
and so on experience happiness, sadness, despair, and anger - that this is
self-evident to anyone who has spent time or shared his or her life in a
meaningful way with animals. Combining careful scientific methodology with
intuition and common sense, this book will be a great tool for those who are
struggling to improve the lives of animals in environments where, so often,
there is an almost total lack of understanding. I only hope it will persuade
many people to reconsider the way they treat animals in the future."
-- Jane Goodall
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