Second nature : the inner lives of animals
by
 
Balcombe, Jonathan P.

Title
Second nature : the inner lives of animals

Author
Balcombe, Jonathan P.

ISBN
9780230613621

Personal Author
Balcombe, Jonathan P.

Edition
1st ed.

Publication Information
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Physical Description
xiv, 242 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Contents
Experience. Introduction ; Tuning in : animal sensitivity ; Getting it : intelligence ; With feeling : emotions ; Knowing it : awareness -- Coexistence. Communicating ; Getting along : sociability ; Being nice : virtue -- Emergence. Rethinking cruel nature ; Homo fallible ; The new humanity.

Abstract
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.

Subject Term
Animal behavior.
 
Animal intelligence.
 
Animal psychology.
 
Social behavior in animals.


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