Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Teach Us about Ourselves

The new York Times bestselling in this ground-breaking and entertaining book primatologist Frans de Waal draws on his renowned studies of the social and emotional lives of chimpanzees bonobos and other primates and personal encounters with many other species to illuminate new ideas and findings about animal emotions. Opening with the moving farewell between Mama a dying chimpanzee matriarch and her human friend - The video of which has been watched by millions online - mamas last hug illustrates how profoundly we have underestimated animals Emotional experiences. De waals radical proposal is that emotions are like organs: humans havent a single organ that other animals dont have and the same can be said of our emotions. About the Author Frans de Waal has been named one ofTime magazines 100 Most Influential People. The author ofOur Inner Ape(Granta 2005) among many other works he is the C. H. Candler Professor in Emory Universitys Psychology Department and director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center. He lives in Atlanta Georgia.