Second nature
Subtitle: the inner lives of animals
By: Jonathan Balcombe ; foreword by J.M. Coetzee
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780230613621
Description: Jonathan Balcombe, animal behaviorist and author of the critically acclaimed "Pleasurable Kingdom," draws on the latest research, observational studies and personal anecdotes to reveal the full gamut of animal experience--from emotions, to problem solving, to moral judgment, while at the same time challenging the widely held idea that nature is red in tooth and claw and highlighting animal traits we have disregarded until now.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-230) and index.
Table of contents: title: Experience. Introduction ; Tuning in : animal sensitivity ; Getting it : intelligence ; With feeling : emotions ; Knowing it : awareness; title: Coexistence. Communicating ; Getting along : sociability ; Being nice : virtue; title: Emergence. Rethinking cruel nature ; Homo fallible ; The new humanity.