The Inner Life of Animals. Peter Wohlleben

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      foreword by JEFFREY MOUSSAIEFF MASSON

       PETER WOHLLEBEN

      translation by JANE BILLINGHURST

       CONTENTS

       Foreword by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

       Introduction

       1Selfless Mother Love

       2Instinct—A Second-Rate Emotion?

       3Loving People

       4Anybody Home?

       5Pig Smarts

       6Gratitude

       7Lies and Deception

       8Stop, Thief!

       9Take Courage!

       10Black and White

       11Cold Hedgehogs, Warm Honey Bees

       12Crowd Intelligence

       13Hidden Agendas

       14Simple Sums

       15Just for Fun

       16Desire

       17Till Death Do Us Part

       18What’s in a Name?

       19Grief

       20Shame and Regret

       21Empathy

       22Altruism

       23Upbringing

       24Getting Rid of the Kids

       25Once Wild, Forever Wild

       26Snipe Mess

       27Something Special in the Air

       28Comfort

       29Weathering the Storm

       30Pain

       31Fear

       32High Society

       33Good and Evil

       34Hey, Mr. Sandman

       35Animal Oracles

       36Animals Age, Too

       37Alien Worlds

       38Artificial Environments

       39In the Service of Humanity

       40Communication

       41Where Is the Soul?

       Epilogue

       Acknowledgments

       Notes

       Index

       FOREWORD

      PETER WOHLLEBEN’S PREVIOUS book, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from a Secret World, became a sensation in Germany when it was first published in 2015, and it went on to equal success in many other countries, as well. With good reason. The book is a passionate, intelligent, lyrical account of the emotions (yes, you read that right) trees experience on their own and for others, and sometimes even for others of a different plant species (something we call altruism). Trees take care of other trees that are weak or sick, they cry out when they are thirsty, and they possess other astonishing, long-overlooked abilities. The Hidden Life of Trees was an update to the vastly popular but scientifically dubious book by the American World War II spy Peter Tompkins, published in 1973: The Secret Life of Plants. With Wohlleben, we were on the right track.

      And now comes the same treatment given to the inner life of animals. The only difference is that this subject has, especially in the last ten years or so, taken off as a field of serious research and popular books, especially by Jonathan Balcombe, the oceanologist Carl Safina and many others. The trend was started, I believe, way back in 1982 by the great Harvard biologist Donald Griffin, who wrote the book The Question of Animal Awareness. These books have proved immensely popular precisely because the general population knows that what is being described is true from their own experiences. Who, living


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