Jeffrey Masson
- Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson is the bestselling author of 9 books on the emotional life of animals. His book, DOGS NEVER LIE ABOUT LOVE, has sold over 1 million copies worldwide. Jeff lives with his family in Auckland, New Zealand. His newest book is Beasts: What Animals Can Teach Us About the Origins of Good and Evil, where Masson looks at why humans have killed 200 million of their own kind in the 20th century alone, while orcas have killed not a single orca in the wild! You can buy this book here: http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/beasts-9781608196159/ Or as an Ebook here: http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/beasts-9781608199914/
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Monthly Archives: May 2011
Tears for Von Trier?
I think people have attacked Lars von Trier’s comments about Jews and Hitler during the Cannes Film Festival for the wrong reasons. What he first said at the press conference was: “I thought I was a Jew for a long … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged "Inner Hitler", "Nazi humanity", Bruno Ganz, confusing history and cinema, Danish Jews, Downfall, Hitler, Jews, Nazi, understanding Hitler, Von Tier
6 Comments
The Big Cats by Way of the Little Cats at Home
I am trying to come to terms with “violence” in different species, other than humans. The big cats obviously come to mind. Nobody would deny that we kill them in enormous numbers, and they kill us hardly at all. But … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Uncategorized
Tagged Ace Bourke, African leopard, Christian the Lion, Ewer, George Schaller, Jim Corbett, Ken Logan, leopards, lions, man-eaters, pumas, Rick Hopkins, Sundarbans, Sunquist, the big cats, tigers, Vaillant, violence in animals
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Shark Attacks: What’s the Truth?
Sharks The great white shark is only one of 375 species of shark, most of them harmless. Only thirty species of sharks have ever been known to attack people, and most of those attacks are by just three specific kinds: … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged apex predator, harmless sharks, shark attacks, shark myths, sharks, top predator
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The Lobster and Me
I wandered into a seafood restaurant to make a call when I looked into an aquarium. There was a large lobster (and since lobsters continue to grow with age, this large one was perhaps 50 years old), waving its tentacles … Continue reading
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Tagged animal suffering, anthropomorphism, eating animals, lobsters, veganism, vegetarian
8 Comments