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Masson, J. Moussaieff (Jeffrey Moussaieff), 1941-
Subjects
Violence -- Social aspects.
Cruelty -- Social aspects.
Animal behavior.
Emotions in animals.
Animal psychology.
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Masson, J. Moussaieff (Jeffrey Moussaieff), 1941-
Violence -- Social aspects.
Cruelty -- Social aspects.
Animal behavior.
Emotions in animals.
Animal psychology.
MARC Display
Beasts
:
what
animals
can
teach
us
about
the
origins
of
good
and
evil
/ Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson.
by
Masson, J. Moussaieff (Jeffrey Moussaieff), 1941-
Bloomsbury, c2014.
Call #:
591.51 M419b
Subjects
Violence -- Social aspects.
Cruelty -- Social aspects.
Animal behavior.
Emotions in
animals
.
Animal psychology.
ISBN:
9781608196159 (hc.)
1608196151 (hc.)
Description:
213 p. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
"There are two supreme predators on the planet with the most complex brains in nature: humans and orcas. In the twentieth century alone, one of these
animals
killed 200 million members of its own species, the other has killed none. Jeffrey Masson's fascinating new book begins here: There is something different
about
us
. In his previous bestsellers, Masson has showed that
animals
can
teach
us
much
about
our own emotions--love (dogs), contentment (cats), grief (elephants), among others. But
animals
have much to
teach
us
about
negative emotions such as anger and aggression as well, and in unexpected ways. In
Beasts
he demonstrates that the violence we perceive in the "wild" is mostly a matter of projection. We link the basest human behavior to
animals
, to "
beasts
" ("he behaved no better than a beast"), and claim the high ground for our species. We are least human, we think, when we succumb to our primitive, animal ancestry. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Animals
, at least predators, kill to survive, but there is nothing in the annals of animal aggression remotely equivalent to the violence of mankind. Our burden is that humans, and in particular humans in our modern industrialized world, are the most violent
animals
to our own kind in existence, or possibly ever in existence on earth. We lack
what
all other
animals
have: a check on the aggression that would destroy the species rather than serve it. It is here, Masson says, that
animals
have something to
teach
us
about
our own history. In
Beasts
, he strips away our misconceptions of the creatures we fear, offering a powerful and compelling look at our uniquely human propensity toward aggression"--Publisher.
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