When Elephants Weep
  • Published: 8 March 1996
  • ISBN: 9780099478911
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $32.99

When Elephants Weep

The Emotional Lives of Animals

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1 Feb 2011
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8 Mar 1996
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From dancing squirrels to bashful gorillas and spiteful killer whales, When Elephants Weep fascinates, provokes and will change the way you think about animals

For more than 100 years, scientists have denied that animals experience emotions, yet this remarkable and groundbreaking book proves what animal-lovers have known to be true: wolves, tigers, giraffes, elephants and many other creatures exhibit all kinds of feelings - hope, fear, shame, love, compassion. From Ola, the irritable whale, to Toto, the chimpanzee who nursed his owner back to health, this book collects together for the first time a vast range of case histories which show the extraordinary complexity of the animal world, and the tumult of emotions that govern it.
  • Published: 8 March 1996
  • ISBN: 9780099478911
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $32.99
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About the authors

Jeffrey Masson

Jeffrey Masson graduated from the Toronto Psychoanalytic Institute and was briefly Projects Director of the Sigmund Freud Archives. The book he wrote with Susan McCarthy on animal emotions, When Elephants Weep (1994), became a bestseller in the United States. Since then he has published nine books on animals and their emotions, including Dogs Never Lie About Love, The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats and most recently, The Dog Who Couldn't Stop Loving. He lives with his family in Auckland, New Zealand.

Susan McCarthy

Jeffrey Masson graduated from the Toronto Psychoanalytic Institute and was briefly Projects Director of the Sigmund Freud Archives. The book he wrote with Susan McCarthy on animal emotions, When Elephants Weep (1994), became a bestseller in the United States. Since then he has published nine books on animals and their emotions, including Dogs Never Lie About Love, The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats and most recently, The Dog Who Couldn't Stop Loving. He lives with his family in Auckland, New Zealand.

Praise for When Elephants Weep

Powerful stuff... Accessible and entertaining

Guardian

A masterpiece... The most comprehensive and compelling argument for animal sensibility that I've yet seen

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

A powerful case for re-examining our entire relationship with the animal world

Brian Jackman, The Times

Among animal experts, When Elephants Weep is being hailed as a milestone in the battle to make man understand he is only one member of an enormous family

George Gordon, Daily Mail