Pleasurable Kingdom - Animals and the Nature of Feeling Good

Jonathan Balcombe

St. Martin's Griffin

2007

360 páginas

12h 0m

ISBN-10: 1403986029

Pleasurable Kingdom presents new evidence that animals--like humans--enjoy themselves. From birds to baboons, insects to iguanas, animals feel good thanks to play, sex, touch, food, anticipation, comfort, aesthetics, and more. Combining rigorous evidence, elegant argument and amusing anecdotes, leading animal behavior researcher Jonathan Balcombe shows that the possibility of positive feelings in creatures other than humans has important ethical ramifications for both science and society.