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Cover: 9780691260761 | Playing Possum | How Animals Understand Death | Susana Monsó | Buch
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Playing Possum
How Animals Understand Death
Buch von Susana Monsó
Sprache: Englisch

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"How animals conceive of death and dying-and what they can teach us about our own relationships with mortalityWhen the opossum feels threatened, she becomes paralyzed. Her body temperature plummets, her breathing and heart rates drop to a minimum, and her glands simulate the smell of a putrefying corpse. Playing Possum explores what the opossum and other creatures can teach us about how we and other species understand mortality, and demonstrates that the concept of death, far from being a uniquely human attribute, is widespread in the animal [...] humor and empathy, Susana Monsâo tells the stories of ants who attend their own funerals, chimpanzees who clean the teeth of their dead, dogs who snack on their caregivers, crows who avoid the places where they saw a carcass, elephants obsessed with collecting ivory, and whales who carry their dead for weeks. Monsâo, one of today's leading experts on animal cognition and ethics, shows how there are more ways to conceive of mortality than the human way, and challenges the notion that the only emotional reactions to death worthy of our attention are ones that resemble our own.Blending philosophical insight with new evidence from behavioral science and comparative psychology, Playing Possum dispels the anthropocentric biases that cloud our understanding of the natural world, and reveals that, when it comes to death and dying, we are just another animal"--
"How animals conceive of death and dying-and what they can teach us about our own relationships with mortalityWhen the opossum feels threatened, she becomes paralyzed. Her body temperature plummets, her breathing and heart rates drop to a minimum, and her glands simulate the smell of a putrefying corpse. Playing Possum explores what the opossum and other creatures can teach us about how we and other species understand mortality, and demonstrates that the concept of death, far from being a uniquely human attribute, is widespread in the animal [...] humor and empathy, Susana Monsâo tells the stories of ants who attend their own funerals, chimpanzees who clean the teeth of their dead, dogs who snack on their caregivers, crows who avoid the places where they saw a carcass, elephants obsessed with collecting ivory, and whales who carry their dead for weeks. Monsâo, one of today's leading experts on animal cognition and ethics, shows how there are more ways to conceive of mortality than the human way, and challenges the notion that the only emotional reactions to death worthy of our attention are ones that resemble our own.Blending philosophical insight with new evidence from behavioral science and comparative psychology, Playing Possum dispels the anthropocentric biases that cloud our understanding of the natural world, and reveals that, when it comes to death and dying, we are just another animal"--
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Susana Monsó Foreword by Mark Rowlands, author of The Philosopher and the Wolf
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Buch
ISBN-13: 9780691260761
ISBN-10: 0691260761
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Monsó, Susana
Hersteller: Princeton Univers. Press
Abbildungen: 18 b/w illus. 2 tables.
Maße: 223 x 147 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Susana Monsó
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.10.2024
Gewicht: 0,455 kg
Artikel-ID: 128485045
Über den Autor
Susana Monsó Foreword by Mark Rowlands, author of The Philosopher and the Wolf
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Buch
ISBN-13: 9780691260761
ISBN-10: 0691260761
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Monsó, Susana
Hersteller: Princeton Univers. Press
Abbildungen: 18 b/w illus. 2 tables.
Maße: 223 x 147 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Susana Monsó
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.10.2024
Gewicht: 0,455 kg
Artikel-ID: 128485045
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