Description: Playing Possum : How Animals Understand Death, Hardcover by Monsó, Susana, ISBN 0691260761, ISBN-13 9780691260761, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "How animals conceive of death and dying-and what they can teach us about our own relationships with mortalityWhen the opossum feels threatened, she becomes paralyzed. Her body temperature plummets, her breathing and heart rates drop to a minimum, and her glands simulate the smell of a putrefying corpse. Playing Possum explores what the opossum and other creatures can teach us about how we and other species understand mortality, and demonstrates that the concept of death, far from being a uniquely human attribute, is widespread in the animal humor and empathy, Susana Monsâo tells the stories of ants who attend their own funerals, chimpanzees who clean the teeth of their dead, dogs who snack on their caregivers, crows who avoid the places where they saw a carcass, elephants obsessed with collecting ivory, and whales who carry their dead for weeks. Monsâo, one of today's leading experts on animal cognition and ethics, shows how there are more ways to conceive of mortality than the human way, and challenges the notion that the only emotional reactions to death worthy of our attention are ones that resemble our philosophical insight with new evidence from behavioral science and comparative psychology, Playing Possum dispels the anthropocentric biases that cloud our understanding of the natural world, and reveals that, when it comes to death and dying, we are just another animal"--
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Book Title: Playing Possum : How Animals Understand Death
Number of Pages: 264 Pages
Publication Name: Playing Possum : How Animals Understand Death
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Subject: Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Animal & Comparative Psychology, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Life Sciences / Zoology / General
Item Height: 0.9 in
Publication Year: 2024
Item Weight: 15.9 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Philosophy, Science, Psychology
Item Length: 8.7 in
Author: Susana Monsó
Item Width: 5.7 in
Format: Hardcover
