A groundbreaking, approachable book on the role of emotions in animal and human societies, from the world-renowned primatologist and author of Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
Frans de Waal has been named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People. The New York Times bestselling author of Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? (Granta, 2016) and Our Inner Ape (Granta, 2005) among many other works, he is the C. H. Candler Professor in Emory University's Psychology Department and director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
Scientifically enlightening... [de Waal's] writing and science are
infectiously good
*Guardian*
Entertaining, convincing and moving
*Irish Times*
[De Waal] makes an excellent case for the hypothesis that there is
no emotion in our human psyche that we don't see in our closest
relatives - and, in fact, in intelligent animals of all kinds,
especially mammals and large-brained birds ... A convincing book,
and De Waal [is] an excellent observer of primate behaviour [and]
immensely knowledgeable... a window into chimps' lives, and a
looking glass for our own
*The Times*
Superb... striking... remarkable... illuminating
*New Statesman*
Frans de Waal has spent most of his working life watching
chimpanzees, and his findings have changed our understanding of the
animal world
*Sunday Times*
A captivating and big-hearted book, full of compassion and brimming
with insights about the lives of animals, including human ones
*Yuval Noah Harari*
I doubt that I've ever read a book as good as Mama's Last Hug:
Animal and Human Emotions, because it presents in irrefutable
scientific detail the very important fact that animals do have
these emotions as well as the other mental features we once
attributed only to people. Not only is the book exceedingly
important, it's also fun to read, a real page-turner. I can't say
enough good things about it except that it's utterly splendid
*Elizabeth Marshall Thomas*
After you've read Mama's Last Hug it becomes obvious that animals
have emotions. Learn how they resemble us in many ways
*Animals Make Us Human and Animals in Translation*
Fascinating. Frans De Waal makes us think long and hard about the
true nature of animal emotions
*Desmond Morris*
This is an important book, wise and accessible
*Robert M. Sapolsky*
In Mama's Last Hug, Frans de Waal marshals his wealth of knowledge
and experience, toggling expertly between rigorous science and
captivating anecdote to explain animal behavior-humans included.
While doing so, he rebukes the common conceit that we are
necessarily better, or smarter, than our closest relatives'
*What a Fish Knows*
Anyone reading this book will be changed forever. De Waal has spent
so many decades watching intently and thinking deeply that he sees
a planet that is deeper and more beautiful than almost anyone
realizes. In these pages, you can acquire and share his beautiful,
shockingly insightful view of life on Earth
*Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel*
De Waal is the ultimate zoological magician. His animals hold up
mirrors and make you see yourself. Whether you find that terrifying
or exhilarating is up to you. He is prescient, unnerving,
politically explosive, and always downright entertaining. He can
unmake and remake you, and you should let him
*Being a Beast*
Brilliant...the study of emotions is a new frontier in the science
of animal behaviour
*New Scientist*
Hugely informative, engaging and readable...[de Waal's] book has
much to teach us
*Prospect*
Fascinating
*Telegraph*
Readable, reasonable, well-evidenced, and witty, Mama's Last Hug
makes you wonder how biologists and behaviourists ever came to
doubt the reality of animal emotions'
*Church Times*
Fresh, yet authoritative...this book will reward us with a deeper
understanding of ourselves, and our place in the world
*TLS*
Fresh, yet authoritative...this book will reward us with a deeper
understanding of ourselves, and our place in the world
*TLS*
[Frans de Waal has] exceptional first-hand knowledge of our closest
evolutionary cousins, as demonstrated in this year's Mama's Last
Hug...His important work is about what it means to be an animal,
but also about what it means to be human
*Prospect*
Powerful evidence that animals feel emotions deeply. . . [displays
de Waal's] trademark wit, breadth and generosity'
*The Tablet*
A beautiful book about the sheer humanity - there is no better word
- of chimpanzees and other primates. It portrays their deep
intelligence and their rich emotional and social lives
*Sunday Times*
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