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Carregando... Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselvesde Frans de Waal
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. This is the third de Waal book I've read, following "Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?". Though de Waal says in an afterword he intended the latter to be about cognition and this one to be about emotion, there is a large overlap, even in the examples, studies and anecdotes used. Of the two, "Are We Smart Enough" is the superior book; the emotional inner life of animals is - as he admits repeatedly - less testable, and is dependent on the former cognitive ability of animals, which is testable. As a companion piece to "Are We Smart Enough" this is like a dessert to the main dish, sweet but less substantial. ( ) I found this an uneven read. Initially it seemed just a series of stories about the research into animal and primate behaviour and the exploration of animal emotions. It was clunky and dry at times and hard to see if there was a coherent thread and then it settled in the end into a somewhat complicated discussion of emotions versus feelings and what is free will and sentience and finally a plea for improved animal welfare and not eating meat or perhaps less of it? Since I read most of this with my cat sleeping on my lap, I did go with him on animal emotions in some places but the details of experiments were just too much and not interesting enough for me as a non social scientist. It was just uneven, and that seems a shame since I think he is quite passionate about the point he is trying to make, though that point got lost in more than a few places. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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A whirlwind tour of new ideas and findings about animal emotions, based on De Waal's renowned studies of the social and emotional lives of chimpanzees, bonobos, and other primates. De Waal discusses facial expressions, animal sentience and consciousness, Mama's life and death, the emotional side of human politics, and the illusion of free will. He distinguishes between emotions and feelings, all the while emphasizing the continuity between our species and other species. And he makes the radical proposal that emotions are like organs: we don't have a single organ that other animals don't have, and the same is true for our emotions -- Adapted from publisher's description. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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