Remarkable Accounts Of Animal Emotions
Who among us has not looked into the eyes of a beloved pet and seen a special understanding or witnessed animals in the wild behaving in ways that suggest there's more to their experience than mere instinctive response to their surroundings? This book takes an intriguing look at the issue of animal emotions.
It addresses the fundamental issues in the field of animal emotion studies:
- what are the basic areas of animal mental experiences?
- can we draw a line that separates species that experience emotion from those that do not?
- how far have science and technology progressed toward confirming what many people, including researchers, already strongly believe?
The major areas on emotion are covered: fear, happiness, parental love, courtship and pair bonding, grief and sadness, anger and aggression, as well as other higher emotions of jealousy, resentment, shame, embarrassment and compassion. First-hand observations reveal a fascinating and incredibly moving world: from the maternal devotion of an elephant mother, to a pleasure-seeking iguana, to the self-imposed isolation of a mourning chimpanzee.
