Mama’s Last Hug: Animal and Human Emotion Audiobook (Free)

New York Moments best-selling author and primatologist Frans de Waal explores the fascinating world of pet and human emotions. New York Times best-selling author and primatologist Frans de Waal explores the exciting world of animal and human emotions. Mama’s Last Hug opens using the dramatic farewell between Mama, a dying fifty-nine-year-old chimpanzee matriarch, and biologist Jan Van Hooff. This heartfelt final meeting of two longtime friends, widely shared like a video, presents a screen into about Mama’s Last Hug: Animal and Human Feeling how deep and instantly recognizable these bonds can be. Therefore starts Frans de Waal’s whirlwind tour of fresh ideas and results about animal feelings, based on his renowned research of the interpersonal and psychological lives of chimpanzees, bonobos, and various other primates. De Waal discusses cosmetic expressions, animal sentience and consciousness, Mama’s life and death, the emotional aspect of human politics, and the illusion of free will. He distinguishes between emotions and feelings, all the while emphasizing the continuity between our varieties and other species. And he makes the radical proposal that emotions are like organs: we don’t possess a single body organ that other pets don’t have, and the same is true for our emotions.