Book description
For more than 100 years, scientists have denied that animals experience
emotions, yet this remarkable and ground breaking book proves what
animal-lovers have known to be true: wolves, tigers, giraffes, elephants
and many other creatures exhibit all kinds of feelings - hope, fear,
shame, love, compassion. From Ola, the irritable whale, to Toto, the
chimpanzee who nursed his owner back to health, this book collects
together for the first time a vast range of case histories which show
the extraordinary complexity of the animal world, and the tumult of
emotions that govern it. Jeffrey Masson graduated from the Toronto
Psychoanalytic Institute and was briefly Projects Director of the
Sigmund Freud Archives. The book he wrote with Susan McCarthy on animal
emotions,
When Elephants Weep
(1994), became a bestseller in the United States. SInce then he has
published nine books on animals and their emotions, including Dogs
Never Lie About Love
, The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats
and most recently, The Dog Who Couldn't Stop Loving
. He lives with his family in Auckland, New Zealand.
