Second Nature The Inner Lives of Animals

by Balcombe, Jonathan; Coetzee, J. M.

• ISBN13: 9780230613621
• ISBN10: 0230613624
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-03-16
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Summary

With vivid stories and entertaining anecdotes, Balcombe gives the human pedestal a strong shake while opening the door into the inner lives of the animals themselves.

Author Biography

Jonathan Balcombe, Ph.D., is Animal Behavior Research Consultant for the Washington DC-based Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and the author of Pleasurable Kingdom. He lives in Washington, D.C.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Experience
Introduction	p. 7
Tuning In: Animal Sensitivity	p. 15
Getting It: Intelligence	p. 31
With Feeling: Emotions	p. 45
Knowing It: Awareness	p. 61
Coexistence
Communicating	p. 83
Getting Along: Sociability	p. 103
Being Nice: Virtue	p. 121
Emergence
Rethinking Cruel Nature	p. 143
Homo Fallible	p. 163
The New Humanity	p. 185
Notes	p. 205
Index	p. 231
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