
When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals (Paperback)
Jeffrey Masson (author), Susan McCarthy (author)
£15.99
Paperback
272 Pages
Published: 11/01/1996
Published: 11/01/1996
For more than 100 years, scientists have denied that animals experience emotions, yet this remarkable and groundbreaking book proves what animal-lovers have known to be true: wolves, tigers, giraffes, elephants and many other creatures exhibit all kinds of feelings - hope, fear, shame, love, compassion. From Ola, the irritable whale, to Toto, the chimpanzee who nursed his owner back to health, this book collects together for the first time a vast range of case histories which show the extraordinary complexity of the animal world, and the tumult of emotions that govern it.
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9780099478911
Number of pages: 272
Weight: 192 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 17 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
Powerful stuff... Accessible and entertaining * Guardian *
A masterpiece... The most comprehensive and compelling argument for animal sensibility that I've yet seen -- Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
A powerful case for re-examining our entire relationship with the animal world -- Brian Jackman * The Times *
Among animal experts, When Elephants Weep is being hailed as a milestone in the battle to make man understand he is only one member of an enormous family -- George Gordon * Daily Mail *
A masterpiece... The most comprehensive and compelling argument for animal sensibility that I've yet seen -- Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
A powerful case for re-examining our entire relationship with the animal world -- Brian Jackman * The Times *
Among animal experts, When Elephants Weep is being hailed as a milestone in the battle to make man understand he is only one member of an enormous family -- George Gordon * Daily Mail *
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