Mama's last hug : animal emotions and what they tell us about ourselves / Frans de Waal ; with photographs and drawings by the author.

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 pol...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: De Waal, Frans, 1948-2024 (Author, Photographer, Illustrator)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Emotions in animals.
Primates > Behavior.
Chimpanzees > Behavior.
NATURE / Animals / Primates.
PSYCHOLOGY / Emotions.
Physical Description:viii, 326 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Prologue
  • 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
  • Conclusion.