Beyond words : what animals think and feel
Record details
- ISBN: 9780805098884 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 0805098887 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9780805098891 (electronic book)
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Physical Description:
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xiii, 461 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2015.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "A John Macrae Book." |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-438) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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Subject: | Animal psychology Animal behavior Elephants Psychology Wolves Psychology Whales Psychology Psychology, Comparative |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kirtland Community College Library | QL 785 .S24 2015 | 30775305503758 | General Collection | Available | - |