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Minding Animals: Awareness, Emotions, and Heart
by
Marc Bekoff
In Minding Animals, Marc Bekoff takes us on an exhilarating tour of the emotional and mental world of animals, where we meet creatures who do amazing things and whose lives are filled with mysteries.
Following in the footsteps of Konrad Lorenz and Niko Tinbergen, Bekoff has spent the last 30 years studying animals of every stripe--from coyotes in Wyoming to penguins in Ant...more
Following in the footsteps of Konrad Lorenz and Niko Tinbergen, Bekoff has spent the last 30 years studying animals of every stripe--from coyotes in Wyoming to penguins in Ant...more
Paperback, 230 pages
Published
June 26th 2003
by Oxford University Press
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This is a discussion of animal ethics for scientists. The author goes pretty far in his advocacy for animal rights, essentially saying that animals are no different than children or the mentally handicapped in terms of their rights and our responsibilities. That approach-- treating animals as persons-- has some serious problems. We protect children from each other. If we took his arguments seriously, wouldn't we have to protect animals from the pain inflicted on them by other animals? Unfortu...more
The book was okay but compared to other books ive read on the subject I found it somewhat lacking. When describing and analyzing experiments and other data he skimmed over it very quickly and left out key points in them and he also usually only gave one point of view on how to interpret the results. I suggest reading wild minds by marc d. hauser if you want a more in dept and non biased view
Marc writes feelingly about the "feelings" of animals -- another book that will have you reassess your thoughts about animals and how we treat them!
Keri
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Need to get this one.
Snail in Danger (Sid) Nicolaides
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The structure of this book annoyed me too much for me to want to keep reading it.
it was good. not as good as i expected, mostly because i was expecting more about his encounters with animals over how he feels about them. but it was informative and inspiring :)
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