Pleasurable Kingdom: Animals and the Nature of Feeling Good (MacSci)

Книга Pleasurable Kingdom: Animals and the Nature of Feeling Good Pleasurable Kingdom: Animals and the Nature of Feeling GoodКниги Биология Автор: Jonathan Balcombe Год издания: 2006 Формат: pdf Издат.:Macmillan Страниц: 256 Размер: 1,2 ISBN: 1403986010 Язык: Английский0 (голосов: 0) Оценка:The recognition of animal pain and stress, once controversial, is now acknowledged by legislation in many countries, but there is no formal recognition of animals' ability to feel pleasure. Pleasurable Kingdom is the first book for lay-readers to present new evidence that animals--like humans--enjoy themselves. It debunks the popular perception that life for most is a continuous, grim struggle for survival and the avoidance of pain. Instead it suggests that creatures from birds to baboons 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 proposes that the possibility of positive feelings in creatures other than humans has important ethical ramifications for both science and society. Pleasurable Kingdom Is The First Book To Focus On New Evidence That Animals, Like Humans, Enjoy Themselves. It Debunks The Popular Perception That Life For Most Is A Continuous, Grim Struggle For Survival. Instead It Suggests That Creatures From Birds To Bats To Baboons May Feel Good Thanks To Play, Sex, Touch, Food, Anticipation, Comfort, Aesthetics And More.--jacket. Forbidden Pleasures: Our Reluctance To Acknowledge Animal Pleasure -- Feeling Smart: The Intelligence Of Pleasure -- 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 -- From Animal Pleasure -- Feeling Good, Doing Good: Implications Of A Pleasurable Kingdom. Jonathan Balcombe. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 228-259) And Index. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 6 Acknowledgments......Page 8 Prologue......Page 10 Part I Why animal pleasure?......Page 14 1 Survival of the happiest......Page 16 2 Forbidden pleasure......Page 32 3 Feeling smart......Page 56 Part II What animal pleasure?......Page 74 4 Play......Page 76 5 Food......Page 99 6 Sex......Page 115 7 Touch......Page 134 8 Love......Page 155 9 Transcendent pleasures......Page 169 10 From flies to fish......Page 192 Part III From animal pleasure......Page 214 11 Feeling good, doing good......Page 216 Bibliography......Page 237 B......Page 269 C......Page 271 D......Page 272 F......Page 273 G......Page 274 I......Page 275 L......Page 276 M......Page 277 P......Page 278 R......Page 280 S......Page 281 T......Page 282 Z......Page 283 Presents a case for an ethical recognition of animals' ability to experience emotions, drawing on rigorous evidence and lighthearted anecdotes to refute popular conceptions that animal life is predominantly focused on the avoidance of pain, in an account that seeks to demonstrate that animals have an ability to experience pleasure. Reprint. 30,000 first printing. Presents a case for the recognition of animals' ability to experience emotions, drawing on evidence and anecdotes to refute popular conceptions that animal life is predominantly focused on the avoidance of pain.