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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Tag Archives: orcas
I Would Rather Have Been Born an Orca
No kidding. I really would. What sets me off can be just about any account of an atrocity, because my first thought is: no orca ever does this. The latest was reading about the “desaparecidos” in Argentina during … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged apex predator, Chelsea Manning, Daniel Ellsberg, desaparecidos argentina, Edward Snowden, orcas, Primo Levi, the Dodo
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Orcas Who Play with Their Food
You probably know the orca by its other name: the killer whale. This name is old. In 1835, R. Hamilton wrote that the killer whale “…has the character of being exceedingly voracious and warlike. It devours an immense number of … Continue reading
Posted in Animal Rights, Animals, Vegetarianism and Veganism
Tagged absence of in orca society, apex predators, baby lambs, baby seals, compassion in orcas, culture in orcas, daniel defoe, empathy, enormous brains of orcas, genocide, Howard Garrett, Jewish grandmothers, killer whales, Lyall Watson, Maori elders, murder, Naomi Rose, not eating meat, orca aggression, orcas, orcas and humans, orcas and tyranny, orcas don't kill each other, rape, sentimentality, spindle cells, torture, tyrants, Upanishads, vegan choice, vegetarianism
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Peaceable Kingdom
Some years ago I conducted a fairly ordinary experiment in group living: I introduced a baby rabbit, two baby rats, a kitten, a puppy, and a rooster and a chick to one another at a very early age, and surprise, … Continue reading
Posted in Animal Rights, Animals, Uncategorized
Tagged animal compassion, animal rights, apex predators, benign animal experiments, jeffrey masson, kittens and rabbits as friends, orcas, peaceable kingdom, pet chickens, pet rats, prey species, rabbits, sentimentalism, veganism, violence, walking on the beach with cats, watering holes
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Ants and War
I don’t think we can help it. We are a species given to making comparisons. We like analogies, and metaphors, and some of us (OK, me) anthropomorphize regularly. I have been a vigorous defender of this practice, especially in my … Continue reading
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Tagged animal emotions, ant killing, ant personalities, Anthill, anthropomorphism, ants, apex predators, Argentine ants, Con Slobodchikoff, Deborah Gordon, dogs and friendship, domestication, elephants and grief, EO Wilson, Felicity Huntingford, Gunnison prairie dog alarm calls, Harry Harlow, Mark Moffett, Martian zoologist, myrmecology, orcas, slavery in ants, sociobiology, The Ants, The Small Majority, war
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Crocs and Us
Crocs and Us . Recently we were warned that there was a great white shark swimming not far from our house on the beach in Auckland. Nobody entered the ocean for weeks. If you told me the chances of being … Continue reading
Posted in Animal Rights, Animals
Tagged alpha predator, altruism in animals, altruistic behavior in animals, American alligator, apex predator, compassion in animals, crocodiles, fatal crocodile attacks, gueltas, Mauritania, Nile crocodile, orcas, sacred crocodiles, Saltwater crocodile, supreme predator, young crocodiles distress call
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What distinguishes humans from animals?
For years the myth was of “Man the Hunter.” Gone now, thank god. But in its place do we really need to be “Man the hunted?” That humans have always been prey to larger, better equipped predators like the big … Continue reading
Posted in Animal Rights, Animals
Tagged altruism., animal liberators, apex predators, big cats, bystanders, human, hunt, jeffrey masson, jesus ants, killing animals, orcas, war, Wolves
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