Animal passions and beastly virtues : reflections on redecorating nature / Marc Bekoff ; foreword by Jane Goodall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bekoff, Marc.

Series:

Animals, culture, and society.

Animals, culture, and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognition in animals.

Social behavior in animals.

Animal rights.

Animal welfare.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What is it really like to be a dog? Do animals experience emotions like pleasure, joy, and grief? Marc Bekoff's work draws world-wide attention for its originality and its probing into what animals think about and know as well as what they feel, what physical and mental skills they use to live successfully within their social community. Bekoff's work, whether addressed to scientists or the general public, demonstrates that investigations into animal thought, emotions, self-awareness, behavioral ecology, and conservation biology can be compassionate as well as scientifically rigorous.In Animal

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; Introduction; I EMOTIONS, COGNITION, AND ANIMAL SELVES:"WOW! THAT'S ME!"; 1 Beastly Passions; 2 Cognitive Ethology: The Comparative Study of Animal Minds; 3 On Aims and Methods of Cognitive Ethology; 4 Reflections on Animal Selves; II THE SOCIAL BEHAVIOR OF DOGS AND COYOTES; 5 The Social Ecology of Coyotes; 6 Population and Social Biology of Free-Ranging Domestic Dogs; 7 Ground Scratching by Male Domestic Dogs:A Composite Signal?; 8 Observations of Scent-Marking and Discriminating Selffrom Others by a Domestic Dog (Canis familiaris): Tales of Displaced Yellow Snow

III SOCIAL PLAY, SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT, AND SOCIALCOMMUNICATION: COOPERATION, FAIRNESS,AND WILD JUSTICE9 Social Communication in Canids: Evidence for theEvolution of a Stereotyped Mammalian Display; 10 Virtuous Nature; 11 Wild Justice, Cooperation, and Fair Play: Minding Manners,Being Nice, and Feeling Good; IV HUMAN DIMENSIONS: HUMAN-ANIMAL INTERACTIONS; 12 Human (Anthropogenic) Effects on Animal Behavior; 13 Translocation Effects on the Behavior of Black-TailedPrairie Dogs; 14 Interactions Among Dogs, People, and the Environment inBoulder, Colorado: A Case Study

15 Behavioral Interactions and Conflict Among Domestic Dogs,Black-Tailed Prairie Dogs, and People in Boulder, ColoradoV ETHICS, COMPASSION, CONSERVATION, AND ACTIVISM:REDECORATING NATURE; 16 The Importance of Ethics in Conservation Biology:Let's Be Ethicists Not Ostriches; 17 Ethics and the Study of Carnivores: Doing Science WhileRespecting Animals; Afterword: Minding Animals, Minding Earth-Old Brainsin New Bottlenecks; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-281-09392-0

9786611093921

1-59213-349-5

OCLC:

476074857