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Safina, Carl, 1955-
Subjects
Animal psychology.
Animal behavior.
Elephants -- Psychology.
Wolves -- Psychology.
Whales -- Psychology.
Psychology, Comparative.
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Safina, Carl, 1955-
Animal psychology.
Animal behavior.
Elephants -- Psychology.
Wolves -- Psychology.
Whales -- Psychology.
Psychology, Comparative.
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Beyond
words
:
what
animals
think
and
feel
/ Carl Safina.
by
Safina, Carl, 1955-
Henry Holt and Company, 2015.
Call #:
591.56 S128b
Subjects
Animal psychology.
Animal behavior.
Elephants -- Psychology.
Wolves -- Psychology.
Whales -- Psychology.
Psychology, Comparative.
ISBN:
9780805098884 (hc.)
0805098887 (hc.)
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
xiii, 461 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Notes:
"A John Macrae Book."
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [413]-438) and index.
Contents:
Into the mine field -- Trumpets of elephants. The big question ; The same basic plan ; Distinctly human? ; Deep and ancient circuits ; We are family ; Motherhood happens ; Do elephants love their babies? ; Elephant empathy ; Good grief ; I don't know how you say good-bye ; I say hello ; Holding back, letting go ; Troubled minds ; Ebony and ivory ; Where baby elephants come from -- Howls of wolves. Into the Pleistocene ; A perfect wolf ; Packing and unpacking ; The wolf named Six ; A shattering of promises ; In a time of truce ; Magnificent outcasts ; Where the wolf birds lead us ; Wolf music ; The hunter is a lonely heart ; A will to live ; Domestic servants ; Two ends of the same leash -- Whines and pet peeves. Never mind theory ; Sex, lies, and humiliated seabirds ; conceit and deceit ; Chuckles and wacky ideas ; Mirror, mirror ; And speaking of neurons ; People of an ancient nation -- Killer wails. Sea rex ; A more complex killer ; Just very sexual ; Inner visions ; Diverse minds ; Intelligent in
what
way? ; The social brain ; Woo-woo ; Helping in mind ; Do not disturb ; To have and to hold ; Expect personality ; A vision true and mighty -- Final scratch.
Summary:
"Weaving decades of field observations with new discoveries about the brain, Carl Safina offers an intimate view of animal behavior to challenge the boundary between humans and
animals
. Readers travel to Amboseli National Park in the threatened landscape of Kenya and witness struggling elephant families working out how to survive poaching and drought, then to Yellowstone National Park to observe wolves sorting out the aftermath of one pack's personal tragedy, and finally plunge into the astonishingly peaceful society of killer whales living in the crystalline waters of the Pacific Northwest. Powerful and illuminating insight into the unique personalities of
animals
revealed through stories of animal joy, grief, jealousy, anger, and love. The similarity between human and nonhuman consciousness, self-awareness, and empathy calls us to re-evaluate how we interact with
animals
"--Provided by publisher.
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