Frans de Waal

Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A New York Times Bestseller and winner of the PEN / E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award

"Game-changing." Sy Montgomery, New York Times Book Review

Mama's Last Hug is a fascinating exploration of the rich emotional lives of animals, beginning with Mama, a chimpanzee matriarch who formed a deep bond with biologist Jan van Hooff. Her story and others like itfrom dogs adopting the injuries of their companions, to rats helping fellow rats in distress, to elephants revisiting the bones of their loved onesshow that humans are not the only species with the capacity for love, hate, fear, shame, guilt, joy, disgust, and empathy. Frans de Waal opens our hearts and minds to the many ways in which humans and other animals are connected.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780393635072
• Artikelnr.: 59591646

Autorenporträt

Frans de Waal (19482024), author of Mama's Last Hug, was C. H. Candler Professor Emeritus of Primate Behavior at Emory University and the former director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center.