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

Primatologist Frans de Waal explores the fascinating world of animal and human emotions.

Author Frans de Waal has dedicated more than forty years to research on animal intelligence and in this book explores the rich area of their emotional lives. Mama’s Last Hug tells the story of a chimpanzee called Mama whose behavior while dying heled form the core of de Waal’s argument: namely that humans are not the only species with the capacity for powerful emotions such as love, hate, fear, shame, guilt, joy, disgust, and empathy. Diving into diverse topics such as animal facial expressions, the emotions behind human politics, the illusion of free will, and animal sentience, de Waal covers a broad spectrum of intelligent and emotional states of animals.

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