Minding animals : awareness, emotions, and heart / Marc Bekoff ; with a Foreword by Jane Goodall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bekoff, Marc, author.

Contributor:

Goodall, Jane, writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animal behavior.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Concerned not only with the study of animal behaviour, but also with the innumerable ways in which humans interact with and intrude into the lives of our animal kin. This is a comparative, evolutionary, and ecological work that does not centre on nonhuman primates of one specific group of animals.

Contents:

CONTENTS; FOREWORD; PREFACE; one: CHASING COYOTES AND MOVING ""YELLOW SNOW""; two: REPRESENTING AND MISREPRESENTING ANIMALS; three: THE RICHNESS OF BEHAVIORAL DIVERSITY: A Potpourri of Animal Behavior; four: ANIMAL MINDS AND WHAT'S IN THEM; five: ANIMAL EMOTIONS: Passionate Natures and Animal Feelings; six: PLAY, COOPERATION, AND THE EVOLUTION OF SOCIAL MORALITY: Foundations of Fairness; seven: ANIMAL WELFARE, ANIMAL RIGHTS, AND ANIMAL PROTECTION; eight: HUMAN INTRUSIONS INTO ANIMALS' LIVES; nine: SCIENCE, NATURE, AND HEART: Minding Animals and Redecorating Nature

ten: ANIMALS AND THEOLOGY: Stepping Lightly with Grace, Humility, Respect, Compassion, and LoveREFERENCES; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-028787-X

1-280-56015-0

9786610560158

1-4237-4661-9

0-19-534864-8

1-60256-867-7

OCLC:

173843789