So it’s no wonder that animals experience and exhibit an array of them. “Mama’s Last Hug” takes these seminal works a step further, making this book even bolder and more important than its companion volume, “Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?,” de Waal’s 2016 best seller. Still others have concentrated on a specific emotion, such as Jonathan Balcombe in “Pleasurable Kingdom” (2006) and Barbara J. Other authors have explored animal emotion, including Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson and Susan McCarthy in “When Elephants Weep” (1995) and Marc Bekoff in “The Emotional Lives of Animals” (2007). The event - recorded on a cellphone, shown on TV and widely shared on the internet - provides the opening story and title for the ethologist Frans de Waal’s game-changing new book, “Mama’s Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us About Ourselves.” Jan Van Hooff, was a Dutch biologist, and his friend, Mama, was a chimpanzee. The mutual emotion so evident in this deathbed reunion was especially moving and remarkable because the visitor, Dr. As he caressed her face, she draped her arm around his neck and pulled him closer.
She reached for her visitor’s head and stroked his hair. But when she realized he was there, her reaction was unmistakable: Her face broke into an ecstatic grin. Now one of them was on her deathbed, crippled with arthritis, refusing food and drink, dying of old age. The two old friends hadn’t seen each other lately. Forming a complete and compelling picture of the inner lives of animals, When Elephants Weep assures that we will never look at animals in the same way again.MAMA’S LAST HUG Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us About Ourselves By Frans de Waal Chapters on love, joy, anger, fear, shame, compassion, and loneliness are framed by a provocative re-evaluation of how we treat animals, from hunting and eating them to scientific experimentation. Not since Darwin's The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals has a book so thoroughly and effectively explored the full range of emotions that exist throughout the animal kingdom.įrom dancing squirrels to bashful gorillas to spiteful killer whales, Masson and coauthor Susan McCarthy bring forth fascinating anecdotes and illuminating insights that offer powerful proof of the existence of animal emotion. The popularity of When Elephants Weep has swept the nation, as author Jeffrey Masson appeared on Dateline NBC, Good Morning America, and was profiled in People for his ground-breaking and fascinating study. This national bestseller exploring the complex emotional lives of animals was hailed as "a masterpiece" by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and as "marvelous" by Jane Goodall.
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