Scientist | Author | Speaker
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If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a video is worth a thousand pictures. One of the rewards of being a passionate animal observer in this day and age is the proliferation of video clips that circulate on YouTube and Facebook. These authentic segments of animal lives provide precious glimpses of their emotions, and they often belie common prejudices about animals and nature.
In more than one hundred thirty striking images, The Exultant Ark celebrates the full range of animal experience with dramatic portraits of animal pleasure.
For centuries we believed that humans were the only ones that mattered. The idea that animals had feelings was either dismissed or considered heresy. Today, that’s all changing.
Pleasurable Kingdom is the first book for lay-readers to present new evidence that animals – like humans – enjoy themselves.
The book covers animal use in all levels of education from middle school to advanced veterinary and medical training; however, emphasis is on those grades in which animal use is greatest in the secondary and undergraduate levels.