Beyond words : what animals think and feel

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Label

Beyond words : what animals think and feel

Title remainder

what animals think and feel

Statement of responsibility

Carl Safina

Creator

• Safina, Carl, 1955-

Author

• Safina, Carl, 1955-

Subject

• Elephants -- Psychology
• Psychology, Comparative
• Animal behavior
• Wolves -- Psychology
• Whales -- Psychology
• Animal psychology

Language

eng

Summary

"Weaving decades of field observations with exciting new discoveries about the brain, Carl Safina's landmark book offers an intimate view of animal behavior to challenge the fixed boundary between humans and nonhuman animals. In Beyond Words, readers travel to Amboseli National Park in the threatened landscape of Kenya and witness struggling elephant families work out how to survive poaching and drought, then to Yellowstone National Park to observe wolves sort out the aftermath of one pack's personal tragedy, and finally plunge into the astonishingly peaceful society of killer whales living in the crystalline waters of the Pacific Northwest. Beyond Words brings forth powerful and illuminating insight into the unique personalities of animals through extraordinary stories of animal joy, grief, jealousy, anger, and love. The similarity between human and nonhuman consciousness, self-awareness, and empathy calls us to re-evaluate how we interact with animals" --

Assigning source

provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

591.56

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

index present

LC call number

QL785

LC item number

.S14 2015

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography