Pleasurable Kingdom
Animals and the Nature of Feeling Good
Balcombe, Jonathan
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BOOK SUMMARY
A rousing case for animal pleasure and its ethical and evolutionary implications
Submit a book reviewAUTHOR BIO
Jonathan Balcombe is Animal Behaviour Research Consultant for the Washington DC-based Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and the author of The Use of Animals in Higher Education: Problems, Alternatives and Recommendations. He lives in Washington DC.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART I: WHY ANIMAL PLEASURE * Survival of the Happiest: The Adaptive Basis for Pleasure * Forbidden Pleasures: our Reluctance to Acknowledge Animal Pleasure * Feeling Smart: The Intelligence of Pleasure * PART II: WHAT ANIMAL PLEASURE * Play: Fun for Its Own Sake * Food: The Pleasures of Sustenance * Sex: Procreation and Recreation * Touch: Making Contact with Pleasure * Love: The Ripening Warmth of Intimacy * Other Pleasures: Esthetics, Humor and Beyond * From Flies to Fish: At the Margins of Pleasure
* PART III: FROM ANIMAL PLEASURE * Feeling Good, Doing Good: Implications of a Pleasurable Kingdom * NOTES, REFERENCES, FURTHER READING PART I: WHY ANIMAL PLEASURE * Survival of the Happiest: The Adaptive Basis for Pleasure * Forbidden Pleasures: our Reluctance to Acknowledge Animal Pleasure * Feeling Smart: The Intelligence of Pleasure * PART II: WHAT ANIMAL PLEASURE * Play: Fun for Its Own Sake * Food: The Pleasures of Sustenance * Sex: Procreation and Recreation * Touch: Making Contact with Pleasure * Love: The Ripening Warmth of Intimacy * Other Pleasures: Esthetics, Humor and Beyond * From Flies to Fish: At the Margins of Pleasure * PART III: FROM ANIMAL PLEASURE * Feeling Good, Doing Good: Implications of a Pleasurable Kingdom * NOTES, REFERENCES, FURTHER READING
BOOK REVIEWS
"In Pleasurable Kingdom, Balcombe draws together an extraordinary amount of information to help us to appreciate that we are not the only species that can, if all goes well, live joyful lives."--Peter Singer"Dr. Balcombe convincingly argues that animals are individual beings with a wide range of emotions and feeling. If he is correct - and I believe he is - it follows that we must grapple with the ethical consequences of his important insights."--Wayne Pacelle, President & CEO, The Humane Society of the United States
"I predicted, in When Elephants Weep, that in ten years better scientists would write better books about the depth of feelings in animals. Well, that time has come, and here is that book."--Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Author, When Elephants Weep "For centuries humanity has justified our extermination of fishes with the myth that they do not have feelings or intelligence. Jonathan Balcombe exposes this myth and presents fishes, with other animals, as sensitive, social, feeling, marvelous sentient beings."--Captain Paul Watson, founder of Greenpeace and Sea Shepherd Conservation Society"entertaining examples of animal bliss -- from drunken parrots to the caresses of fiddler crabs -- bring a pleasure all their own." --Psychology Today
"This genial scientist's accounts of enjoyment in the other-than-human world will irritate strict behaviorists and profoundly delight animal lovers."--Orion Magazine"Brisk, erudite and enormously entertaining...an excellent, approachable introduction to the basic issues in animal behavior."--Publishers Weekly "This entertaining and thought-provoking book is recommended for popular science collections."--Library Journal
"A warm and enjoyable book...anyone with an interest in animal welfare (or just in animals) ought to read it."--www.popularscience.co.uk "This impressive book takes the reader on a journey of scientific knowledge and understanding into the inner lives of other creatures, from mice to monkeys and fish to fowl-- and even insects and worms---that inspires respect and appreciation for all creatures great and small. Dr. Balcombe's book should be a standard text for students of biology and ethology, and all who care for animals will be informed and inspired."--Michael W. Fox, veterinarian, newspaper columnist and author of The Boundless Circle: Caring for Creatures and Creation"Pleasurable Kingdom is a love affair with our fellow beings. Balcombe tempts us to consider, more open-mindedly than ever before, the experiences of animals in more ways than traditional science has yet acknowledged, perhaps even imagined." --Professor Jaak Panksepp, author of Affective Neuroscience"This book is one in which all campaigners for good animal welfare should invest." --The Ark"...a joy to read--a carefully balanced book--which also includes some humorous, enlightening and intriguing animal tales." --www.scienceagogo.com "Superb--has set an agenda for future research. This book will change how we interact with other animal beings." --Marc Bekoff in Trends in Evolution and Ecology"His arguments may change your opinion of the next lobster that arrives steaming on your plate." --Wired News"A lively, shrewd and well-argued book--an admirable contribution."-- Mary Midgely in the Times Higher Educational Supplement
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 1403986010
ISBN(13-digit): 9781403986016
Dewey Decimal: 591.5
Library of Congress: 2006041734
Book Publisher: St Martins Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 274
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