Animals' Best Friends
- 280 pages
- 10 hours of reading
Warmly written and scientifically informed, Animals' Best Friends is the invitation we all need to improve the lives of nonhuman animals among us-and thereby improve our own.
Barbara J. King Books
Barbara J. King is a biological anthropologist and professor of anthropology whose research focuses on the social communication of great apes, our closest living relatives. She has studied ape and monkey behavior in Africa and the United States. King has authored three books on anthropology and received multiple teaching awards.
An anthropologist proves that animals really do experience emotions, describing through a number of specific cases how elephants, housecats and baboons exhibited signs of grieving upon experiencing a loss of a mate, sibling or child.
