Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves by Frans

Description: Mama's Last Hug by Frans de Waal A New York Times Bestseller and winner of the PEN / E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Primatologist Frans de Waal explores the fascinating world of animal and human emotions. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Frans de Waal has spent four decades at the forefront of animal research. Following up on the best-selling Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, which investigated animal intelligence, Mamas Last Hug delivers a fascinating exploration of the rich emotional lives of animals. Mamas Last Hug begins with the death of Mama, a chimpanzee matriarch who formed a deep bond with biologist Jan van Hooff. When Mama was dying, van Hooff took the unusual step of visiting her in her night cage for a last hug. Their goodbyes were filmed and went viral. Millions of people were deeply moved by the way Mama embraced the professor, welcoming him with a big smile while reassuring him by patting his neck, in a gesture often considered typically human but that is in fact common to all primates. This story and others like it form the core of de Waals argument, showing that humans are not the only species with the capacity for love, hate, fear, shame, guilt, joy, disgust, and empathy. De Waal discusses facial expressions, the emotions behind human politics, the illusion of free will, animal sentience, and, of course, Mamas life and death. The message is one of continuity between us and other species, such as the radical proposal that emotions are like organs: we dont have a single organ that other animals dont have, and the same is true for our emotions. Mamas Last Hug opens our hearts and minds to the many ways in which humans and other animals are connected, transforming how we view the living world around us. Author Biography Frans de Waal (1948—2024), author of Mamas Last Hug, was C. H. Candler Professor Emeritus of Primate Behavior at Emory University and the former director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center. Review "Through colorful stories and riveting prose, de Waal firmly puts to rest the stubborn notion that humans alone in the animal kingdom experience a broad array of emotions....De Waal contributes immensely to an ethical sea change for animals." -- Barbara J. King - NPR"De Waals eye-opening observations argue for better treatment and greater appreciation of animals, even as he ensures that youll never look at them—or yourself—the same way again." -- People"Game-changing....For too long, emotion has been cognitive researchers third rail....But nothing could be more essential to understanding how people and animals behave. By examining emotions in both, this book puts these most vivid of mental experiences in evolutionary context, revealing how their richness, power and utility stretch across species and back into deep time....The book succeeds most brilliantly in the stories de Waal relates." -- Sy Montgomery - The New York Times Book Review"An original thinker, [de Waal] seems to invite us to his front-row seats, sharing the popcorn as he gets us up to speed on the plot of how life works, through deeply affecting stories of primates and other animals, all dramas with great lessons for our own species." -- Vicki Constantine Croke - Boston Globe"De Waals conversational writing is at times moving, often funny and almost always eye-opening....Its hard to walk away from Mamas Last Hug without a deeper understanding of our fellow animals and our own emotions." -- Erin Wayman - Science News"A captivating and big-hearted book, full of compassion and brimming with insights about the lives of animals, including human ones." -- Yuval Noah Harari, New York Times best-selling author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind"Before I realized Frans de Waals connection to Mamas actual last hug, I sent the online video link to a large group of scientists saying, I believe it is possible to view this interaction and be changed forever. Likewise, I believe that anyone reading this book will be changed forever. De Waal has spent so many decades watching intently and thinking deeply that he sees a planet that is deeper and more beautiful than almost anyone realizes. In these pages, you can acquire and share his beautiful, shockingly insightful view of life on Earth." -- Carl Safina, author of Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel"I doubt that Ive ever read a book as good as Mamas Last Hug, because it presents in irrefutable scientific detail the very important fact that animals do have these emotions as well as the other mental features we once attributed only to people. Not only is the book exceedingly important, its also fun to read, a real page-turner. I cant say enough good things about it except its utterly splendid." -- Elizabeth Marshall Thomas"Frans de Waal is one of the most influential primatologists to ever walk the earth, changing the way we think of human nature by exploring its continuity with other species. He does this again in the wonderful Mamas Last Hug, an examination of the continuum between emotion in humans and other animals. This subject is rife with groundless speculation, ideology, and badly misplaced folk intuition, and de Waal ably navigates it with deep insight, showing the ways in which our emotional lives are shared with other primates. This is an important book, wise and accessible." -- Robert Sapolsky, author of Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst"In Mamas Last Hug, Frans de Waal marshals his wealth of knowledge and experience, toggling expertly between rigorous science and captivating anecdote to explain animal behavior—humans included. While doing so, he rebukes the common conceit that we are necessarily better, or smarter, than our closest relatives." -- Jonathan Balcombe, author of What a Fish Knows Review Quote "Utterly splendid...I doubt that Ive ever read a book as good...Not only is the book exceedingly important, its also fun to read, a real page-turner." Details ISBN0393635066 Year 2019 ISBN-10 0393635066 ISBN-13 9780393635065 Format Hardcover Pages 336 Language English Publication Date 2019-03-12 Short Title Mamas Last Hug UK Release Date 2019-03-12 Imprint WW Norton & Co Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2019-03-12 NZ Release Date 2019-03-12 US Release Date 2019-03-12 Illustrations 16 pages of black and white illustrations Author Frans de Waal Publisher WW Norton & Co Subtitle Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves Alternative 9780393357837 DEWEY 599.88515 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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