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Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves

Door Frans de Waal

Categorie	Algemeen Dieren
Boeknummer	#404258-UH24
Titel	Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
Auteur	Waal, Frans de
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	London : Granta Books
Jaar van uitgave	2019
ISBN10	1783784105
ISBN13	9781783784103
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original boards, dust jacket, illustrated with photographs in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting	Mama's Last Hug opens with the moving farewell between Mama, a dying chimpanzee matriarch, and her human friend, a professor who inspired the author's work. Their parting, the video of which has been watched by millions online, is not only a window into the deep bonds they shared, but into the remarkable emotional capacities of animals. In this groundbreaking and entertaining book, primatologist Frans de Waal draws on his renowned studies of the social and emotional lives of chimpanzees, bonobos and other primates, and personal encounters with many other species, to illuminate new ideas and findings about animal emotions: joy, grief, shame, love, pain and happiness. Exploring the facial expressions of animals, human and animal politics, and animal consciousness, de Waal illustrates how pro... (Lees verder)foundly we have underestimated animals' emotional experiences. He argues that emotions occupy a far more significant place in the way we organise our societies than a more rationalist approach would advocate. His radical proposal is that emotions are like organs: humans haven't a single organ that other animals don't have, and the same can be said of our emotions.
Pagina's	326
Conditie	Goed — Book block slightly discolored.
Prijs	€ 10,00

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