When Elephants Weep by Jeffrey Masson

When Elephants Weep by Jeffrey Masson

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For more than 100 years, scientists have denied that animals experience emotions, yet this remarkable and groundbreaking 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.

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When Elephants Weep by Jeffrey Masson

For more than 100 years, scientists have denied that animals experience emotions, yet this remarkable and groundbreaking 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.
Powerful stuff.. Accessible and entertaining * Guardian *
A masterpiece... The most comprehensive and compelling argument for animal sensibility that I've yet seen -- Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
A powerful case for re-examining our entire relationship with the animal world -- Brian Jackman * The Times *
Among animal experts, When Elephants Weep is being hailed as a milestone in the battle to make man understand he is only one member of an enormous family -- George Gordon * Daily Mail *
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.
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ISBN 13 9780099478911
ISBN 10 0099478919
Title When Elephants Weep
Author Jeffrey Masson
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Year published 1996-01-11
Number of pages 272
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