People And Other Animals: Real Differences, Real Similarities - Hardcover

Donner, Norma

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 156980236X ISBN 13: 9781569802366

Publisher: Barricade Books Inc, 2002

Synopsis

Donner (a former teacher of animal husbandry) reviews what she sees as the differences between humans and animals. She finds that animals are much closer to us than westerners tend to believe. Exploring issues of communication, emotion, sexuality, and even morality, she argues that differences tend to be only in matters of degree, not in kind. The major difference she finds is the global threat humans pose to the environment and the survival of numerous species, including our own. She ends on a hopeful note however, suggesting that human beings also have the flexibility to solve environmental problems. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Synopsis

Every day more of us are realising that humans can not survive without the rest of the Animal Kingdom. While many species have been vanishing, it is homosapien who is in the greatest danger of eradication. Norma Donner has made a lifetime study of animal (including human) behaviour, encompassing those domestic animals on which we depend so much. These include cats and cows, dogs and dromedaries and some wild ones, like cougars and coyotes, deer and dolphins. This book offers an appreciation of the interdependence of all animal groups. She is convinced that the similarities far exceed the differences. Scientists observed that animals, such as the whooping crane, the whale and the bison we in danger of extinction. In doing so they were able to change the course of destiny and bison are again now roaming the range, whooping crane numbers are climbing although they remain an endangered species. The much hunted whale is now under international protection

Edition details

• Publisher: Barricade Books Inc
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 156980236X
• ISBN 13: 9781569802366
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 276