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Mama's last hug : animal emotions and what they tell us about ourselves / Frans de Waal.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfictionPublisher: Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Edition: Large printDescription: 533 pages (large print), 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781432865610
  • 1432865617
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Contents:
Mama's last hug: An ape matriarch's farewell -- Window to the soul: When primates laugh and smile -- Body to body: Empathy and sympathy -- Emotions that make us human: Disgust, shame, guilt, and other discomforts -- Will to power: Politics, murder, warfare -- Emotional intelligence: On fairness and free will -- Sentience: What animals feel.
Summary: A whirlwind tour of new ideas and findings about animal emotions, based on De Waal's studies of the social and emotional lives of chimpanzees, bonobos, and other primates. De Waal discusses facial expressions, animal sentience and consciousness, Mama's life and death, the emotional side of human politics, and the illusion of free will. He distinguishes between emotions and feelings, all the while emphasizing the continuity between our species and other species. And he makes the radical proposal that emotions are like organs: we don't have a single organ that other animals don't have, and the same is true for our emotions -- Adapted from publisher's description.
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Large Print Book Large Print Book Main Library Large Print NonFiction 599.8851 W111 Available 33111009699220
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A New York Times Bestselling AuthorMama, a chimpanzee matriarch, formed a deep bond with biologist Jan van Hooff. When she was dying, van Hooff visited her in her night cage for a last hug. The film of their goodbyes went viral. Millions were deeply moved by the way Mama embraced the professor, welcoming him with a big smile while reassuring him by patting his neck -- a gesture often considered typically human yet is common to all primates. This story and others like it form the core of Frans de Waal's argument that humans are not alone in their capacity for love, hate, fear, shame, guilt, joy, disgust, and empathy.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 483-530).

Large print edition does not include index.

Mama's last hug: An ape matriarch's farewell -- Window to the soul: When primates laugh and smile -- Body to body: Empathy and sympathy -- Emotions that make us human: Disgust, shame, guilt, and other discomforts -- Will to power: Politics, murder, warfare -- Emotional intelligence: On fairness and free will -- Sentience: What animals feel.

A whirlwind tour of new ideas and findings about animal emotions, based on De Waal's studies of the social and emotional lives of chimpanzees, bonobos, and other primates. De Waal discusses facial expressions, animal sentience and consciousness, Mama's life and death, the emotional side of human politics, and the illusion of free will. He distinguishes between emotions and feelings, all the while emphasizing the continuity between our species and other species. And he makes the radical proposal that emotions are like organs: we don't have a single organ that other animals don't have, and the same is true for our emotions -- Adapted from publisher's description.

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