Pleasurable Kingdom

Animals and the nature of feeling good

Jonathan Balcombe

256 pages, parution le 10/04/2006

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Résumé

Pleasurable Kingdom is the first trade 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. Combining rigorous evidence, elegant argument and amusing anecdote, leading animal behaviour researcher, Dr Jonathan Balcombe proposes that evolution favours sensory rewards because they drive living things to stay alive and reproduce.

Animal pain and stress, once controversial, are now acknowledged by legislation in many countries. Likewise the possibility of positive feelings in creatures other than humans has important ramifications for science and society and is thus ripe for informed debate, Balcombe concludes.

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Part I Why animal pleasure?
- Survival of the happiest
- Forbidden pleasure
- Feeling smart
Part II What animal pleasure?
- Play
- Food
- Sex
- Touch
- Love
- Transcendent pleasures
- From flies to fish
Part III From animal pleasure
- Feeling good, doing good

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Macmillan
Auteur(s)	Jonathan Balcombe
Parution	10/04/2006
Nb. de pages	256
Format	14 x 20,5
Couverture	Relié
Poids	380g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9781403986016
ISBN13	978-1-4039-8601-6