Comments on: Book review – Mama’s Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Teach Us about Ourselves

By: Book review – Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death | The Inquisitive Biologist

Sat, 12 Oct 2024 11:48:43 +0000

[…] less attention. One is anthropectomy, i.e. denying animals human qualities that they do possess (in Mama’s Last Hug, the late Frans de Waal spoke of anthropodenial; possibly he was not aware of this term). The other […]

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By: Book review – How Animals Grieve | The Inquisitive Biologist

Book review – How Animals Grieve | The Inquisitive Biologist — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 11:18:22 +0000

[…] express grief, though that for King does not negate the phenomenon at large. I would argue that the distinction the late Frans de Waal made between emotions (observable bodily and mental states) and feelings (subjective internal states) […]

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By: Book review – Biocivilisations: A New Look at the Science of Life | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 31 May 2024 11:42:42 +0000

[…] cetacean culture, the hows and whys of animal communication, the mental lives of animals (including emotions, dreams, and consciousness), and even plant neurobiology, and the planetary impact of microbes. […]

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By: Daily Create Bonobo – I wonder, if I draw a line…

Daily Create Bonobo – I wonder, if I draw a line… — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 15:07:45 +0000

[…] You might be interested in the Book Mama’s Last Hug by Frans de Waal. Read the book review on The Inquisitive Biologist. […]

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By: Book review – When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 07 Oct 2022 10:04:38 +0000

[…] condemn many of the things we do to animals. If you are at all familiar with work by Carl Safina, Frans de Waal, or Marc Bekoff, this book will be right up your alley. It even throws in, without explicitly […]

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By: Book review – From Extraterrestrials to Animal Minds: Six Myths of Evolution | The Inquisitive Biologist

Sat, 17 Sep 2022 11:23:15 +0000

[…] My impression is that he is a tad too sure in denying animals certain cognitive abilities. Work by Frans de Waal and others has shown e.g. empathy and a sense of fairness in apes and Rick McIntyre has observed […]

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By: Book review – Different: What Apes Can Teach Us About Gender | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 01 Aug 2022 11:39:12 +0000

[…] other. Echoing the skillful distinction he made between feelings and emotions in his previous book Mama’s Last Hug, De Waal here offers a similarly thoughtful description: “gender is like a cultural coat that […]

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By: Book review – The Reign of Wolf 21: The Saga of Yellowstone’s Legendary Druid Pack | The Inquisitive Biologist

Tue, 09 Feb 2021 17:58:31 +0000

[…] lives of wolves, revealing both how individuals have unique personalities and characters (something Frans de Waal and Carl Safina have convinced me of), but also describing remarkable behaviours. Two stood out in […]

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By: Book review – The Selfish Ape: Human Nature and Our Path to Extinction | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 14 Jan 2021 16:35:47 +0000

[…] capacities shared with a menagerie of birds and mammals that have been shown capable of tool use, self-awareness, and emotions. Or what to make of the sharp observation that “humans have more moving parts […]

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By: Book review – The Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone’s Underdog | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 05 Oct 2020 13:29:36 +0000

[…] Personally, I do not think this crosses over into anthropomorphising wolves. Biologists such as Frans de Waal and Carl Safina, whose book Beyond Words first put me on the track of McIntyre’s work, have […]

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