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Mama's Last Hug
- Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us About Ourselves
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
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Summary
New York Times best-selling author and primatologist Frans de Waal explores the fascinating world of animal and human emotions.
Mama's Last Hug opens with the dramatic farewell between Mama, a dying 59-year-old chimpanzee matriarch, and biologist Jan Van Hooff. This heartfelt final meeting of two longtime friends, widely shared as a video, offers a window into how deep and instantly recognizable these bonds can be.
So begins Frans de Waal's whirlwind tour of new ideas and findings about animal emotions, based on his renowned studies of the social and emotional lives of chimpanzees, bonobos, and other primates. De Waal discusses facial expressions, animal sentience and consciousness, Mama's life and death, the emotional side of human politics, and the illusion of free will. He distinguishes between emotions and feelings, all the while emphasizing the continuity between our species and other species. And he makes the radical proposal that emotions are like organs: We don't have a single organ that other animals don't have, and the same is true for our emotions.
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- David Kinsella
- 23-10-19
Lifts the Lid
Our ignorance on our relationship to animals is slowly lifting. They're not "just animals" and we're not that different from them. We are different in degree, not in kind.
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- natasza
- 12-03-20
a fascinating listen
I loved the book. Absolutely. The author's profound knowledge is impressive. Interesting and entertaining. At the same time full of solid science. I also liked the final chapter where the author talks about moral implications of our knowledge concerning animal emotions
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