The back of this book tells me that “award-winning scientist Marc Bekoff” has spent years studying social animal communication. And that amid the stories of animal joy, grief, and empathy the reader will find the “latest scientific research”. Unfortunately there are just too many anecdotes in this book, and not enough science.

I agree with much of Bekoff’s argument; that animals feel emotions. I just disagree with the manner in which this book writes about them. It simply feels like a collection of “he said she said”.

Which is disappointing.

However, it has provided me with a list of other books to check out. So it isn’t all negative. ( )

Certaines parties du livre sont vraiment passionnantes, d'autres en revanche sont très lourdes. ( )

--ABANDONED--

It's an interesting topic, which makes it seem like it should have also been an interesting book. I made it just over halfway through, but the writing was tedious and although I enjoyed the anecdotes he included, the book didn't hold together that well overall. Positive: I liked the foreword by Jane Goodall. Negative: I found myself skipping paragraphs at a time once Bekoff's writing started. ( )

Another volume from Bekoff that presents irrefutable evidence that humans are not alone in some privileged sentient universe; we do, in fact, share it with creatures great and small, wild and domesticated, and the moral imperative of the situation couldn't be more obvious. ( )

¿por qué sólo los humanos deberíamos de tener emociones? Muchos animales muestran abiertamente sus sentimientos, en público, a la vista de cualquiera. Y si prestamos atención, eso que observamos en el exterior nos da una abundante información sobre lo que está ocurriendo en el interior de la cabeza y el corazón de los animales.
Este libro argumenta y demuestra que los humanos no son los únicos que tiene emociones. ( )