Beyond words: what animals think and feel

by Safina, Carl

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Title Statements

Full title :Beyond words : what animals think and feel / Carl Safina.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2015.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Henry Holt and Company
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2015.

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Index.

The Physical Object

Description:xiii, 461 pages : : illustrations ; : 25 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780805098884, 0805098887, 9780805098891, 0805098895
oclc:ocn938233426
LC Classification:QL785
Dewey Decimal:591.56

Prologue: Into the mind field -- Trumpets of elephants : The big question ; The same basic brain ; Distinctly human? ; Deep and ancient circuits ; We are family ; Motherhood happens ; Do elephants love their babies? ; Elephant empathy ; Good grief ; I don't know how you say good-bye ; I say hello ; Holding back, letting go ; Troubled minds ; Ebony and ivory ; Where baby elephants come from -- Howls of wolves : Into the Pleistocene ; A perfect wolf ; Packing and unpacking ; The wolf named Six ; A shattering of promises ; In a time of truce ; Magnificent outcasts ; Where the wolf birds lead us ; Wolf music ; The hunter is a lonely heart ; A will to live ; Domestic servants ; Two ends of the same leash -- Whines and pet peeves : Never mind theory ; Sex, lies, and humiliated seabirds ; Conceit and deceit ; Chuckles and wacky ideas ; Mirror, mirror ; And speaking of neurons ; People of an ancient nation -- Killer wails : Sea rex ; A more complex killer ; Just very sexual ; Inner visions ; Diverse minds ; Intelligent in what way? ; The social brain ; Woo-woo ; Helping in mind ; Do not disturb ; To have and to hold ; Expect personality ; A vision true and mighty -- Epilogue: Final scratc…

Subjects

Animal behavior Animal psychology Animaux Animaux -- Moeurs et comportement Animaux -- Psychologie attitudes Baleines -- Psychologie Behavior, Animal Éléphants -- Psychologie Elephants -- Psychology Loups -- Psychologie Psychologie Psychologie comparée Psychology, Comparative Whales -- Psychology Wolves -- Psychology