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: war
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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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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