Second nature : the inner lives of animals
Title:
Second nature : the inner lives of animals
Author:
Balcombe, Jonathan P.
Coetzee, J. M., 1940-
ISBN:
9780230613621
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
Physical Description:
xiv, 242 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
General Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents:
Experience. Introduction ; Tuning in : animal sensitivity ; Getting it : intelligence ; With feeling : emotions ; Knowing it : awareness -- Coexistence. Communicating ; Getting along : sociability ; Being nice : virtue -- Emergence. Rethinking cruel nature ; Homo fallible ; The new humanity.
Abstract:
Jonathan Balcombe, animal behaviorist and author of the critically acclaimed "Pleasurable Kingdom," draws on the latest research, observational studies and personal anecdotes to reveal the full gamut of animal experience--from emotions, to problem solving, to moral judgment, while at the same time challenging the widely held idea that nature is red in tooth and claw and highlighting animal traits we have disregarded until now.
Subject:
| Animal behavior |
| Animal intelligence |
| Animal psychology |
| Social behavior in animals |
Summary:
Jonathan Balcombe, animal behaviorist and author of the critically acclaimed "Pleasurable Kingdom," draws on the latest research, observational studies and personal anecdotes to reveal the full gamut of animal experience--from emotions, to problem solving, to moral judgment, while at the same time challenging the widely held idea that nature is red in tooth and claw and highlighting animal traits we have disregarded until now.