Minding Animals. Awareness, Emotions, And Heart

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publisher Place: Usa
Publisher Year: 2002
Edition: First Edition

Description: 230 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: In Minding Animals , Marc Bekoff takes us on an exhilarating tour of the emotional and mental world of animals, where we meet creatures who do amazing things and whose lives are filled with mysteries.Following in the footsteps of Konrad Lorenz and Niko Tinbergen, Bekoff has spent the last 30 years studying animals of every stripe--from coyotes in Wyoming to penguins in Antarctica. He draws on this vast experience, as well as on the observations of other naturalists, to offer readers fascinating stories of animal behavior, including grooming and gossip, feeding patterns, dreaming, dominance, and mating behavior. He offers a thought-provoking look at animal cognition, intelligence, and consciousness and he presents vivid examples of animal passions, highlighting the deep emotional lives of our animal kin. All this serves as background for his thoughtful conclusions about humility and animal protection and animal well-being, where he urges a new paradigm of respect, grace, compassion, and love for all animals.Minding Animals is an important contribution to our understanding of animal consciousness, a major work that will be a must read for anyone who loves nature."To find out about the rich emotional life of nonhuman species, read Minding Animals ."--- Natural History

ISBN: 9780195163377