Animal Passions and Beastly Virtues

Whether it's hard empirical data or careful reasoning you cannot escape Marc Bekoff's conclusion: We must wage peace with our fellow animals and the whole of Nature. Bekoff's book is an inspiration and evidence that a new day of compassion is dawning. What else can explain how this very respected scientist has managed to integrate his heart and mind into one compassionate and caring being? Now we can only hope that those who have dissociated themselves from the reality of biology become whole again. Contents: Part I. Emotions, Cognition, and Animal Selves: "Wow! That's Me!" 1. Beastly Passions 2. Cognitive Ethology: The Comparative Study of Animal Minds 3. On Aims and Methods of Cognitive Ethology, with Dale Jamieson 4. Reflections on Animal Selves, with Paul W. Sherman Part II. The Social Behavior of Dogs and Coyotes 5. The Social Ecology of Coyotes, with Michael C. Wells 6. Population and Social Biology of Free-Ranging Domestic Dogs, Canis familiaris, with Thomas J. Daniels 7. Ground Scratching by Male Domestic Dogs: A Composite Signal? 8. Observations of Scent-Marking and Discriminating Self from Others by a Domestic Dog (Canis familiaris): Tales of Displaced Yellow Snow Part III. Social Play, Social Development, and Social Communication: Cooperation, Fairness, and Wild Justice 9. Social Communication in Canids: Evidence for the Evolution of a Stereotyped Mammalian Display 10. Virtuous Nature 11. Wild Justice, Cooperation, and Fair Play: Minding Manners, Being Nice, and Feeling Good Part IV. Human Dimensions: Human-Animal Interactions 12. Human (Anthropogenic) Effects on Animal Behavior 13. Translocation Effects on the Behavior of Black-Tailed Prairie Dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus), with John P. Farrar, Karin L. Coleman, and Eric Stone 14. Interactions Among Dogs, People, and the Environment in Boulder, Colorado: A Case Study, with Carron A. Meaney 15. Behavioral Interactions and Conflict Among Domestic Dogs, Black-Tailed Prairie Dogs, and People in Boulder, Colorado, with Robert W. Ickes Part V. Ethics, Compassion, Conservation, and Activism: Redecorating Nature 16. The Importance of Ethics in Conservation Biology: Let's Be Ethicists Not Ostriches 17. Ethics and the Study of Carnivores: Doing Science While Respecting Animals, with Dale Jamieson