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Collects essays on the science of animal emotion and human-animal interaction that showcase animal cognitive abilities and such emotions as empathy, grief, humor, and love.
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In 105 thematically organized, revised and updated essays, Bekoff (ecology and evolutionary biology, University of Colorado) presents the latest scientific research about those other animals, the non-human kind--how sentient they really are, how we share a continuum of being, including joy and pain, and even psychological disorders like PTSD. He spotlights research fields that are growing: anthrozoology, the study of human-animal interactions (human-animal studies), ethology, the study of animal behavior, and cognitive ethology, the study of animal minds. The essays are divided into 11 parts: animals and us; against speciesism; media and the (mis)representation of animals; why dogs hump; consciousness, sentience, and cognition; the emotional lives of animals; wild justice and moral intelligence; the lives of captive creatures; who we eat is a moral question; who lives, who dies, and why; rewilding our hearts. Annotation ©2014 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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