Pleasurable Kingdom: Animals and the Nature of Feeling Good

ISBN-13: 9781403986023 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 360 str.

Jonathan Balcombe

Opis

Pleasurable Kingdom presents new evidence that animals--like humans--enjoy themselves. From birds to baboons, insects to iguanas, animals feel good thanks to play, sex, touch, food, anticipation, comfort, aesthetics, and more. Combining rigorous evidence, elegant argument and amusing anecdotes, leading animal behavior researcher Jonathan Balcombe shows that the possibility of positive feelings in creatures other than humans has important ethical ramifications for both science and society.

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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
Fish and Thrips: At the Margins of Pleasure
PART III: FROM ANIMAL PLEASURE
Feeling Good, Doing Good: Implications of a Pleasurable Kingdom
NOTES, REFERENCES, FURTHER READING