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Genre/Form: | Narrative non-fiction |
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Named Person: | Wolf |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Carl Safina |
ISBN: | 9780805098884 0805098887 |
OCLC Number: | 896954325 |
Notes: | "A John Macrae Book." |
Description: | xiii, 461 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm |
Contents: | 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 scratch. |
Responsibility: | Carl Safina. |
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Abstract:
Carl Safina's childhood by the long island shore launched a life-long passion for animals. In his new book, Safina delves deeply into the lives of animals, witnessing their profound capacity for perception, thought, and emotion. He delivers a examination of how animals truly think and feel and what really does make us human.
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