TITLE:
The Smile of a Dolphin:
Remarkable Accounts of Animal Emotions

AUTHOR:
Marc Bekoff
Email: bekoffm@spot.Colorado.EDU

PUBLISHER:
Crown News
299 Park Avenue,
New York, New York 10171, U.S.A.
Tel: 212-572-2545
Fax: 212-940-7868
Contact: Andrea Knebe at aknebel@randomhouse.com

ISBN #:
1-563-31925-X

RETAIL PRICE:
$35.00 U.S.A. (Hardback)
$53.00 Canada (Hardback)

ABOUT THE BOOK:
This unique illustrated book takes an in-depth look at the emotional lives of
animals through the objective eyes of more than 50 scientists who have
devoted their careers to studying animals ranging from great apes to guppies.
 In The Smile of a Dolphin, noted animal behaviorist and author Marc Bekoff
assembles a collection of firsthand accounts offering compelling evidence
that humans are not the only creatures to have rich emotional lives.  The 224
pages of this provocative and colorful book feature observations covering a
wide spectrum of animal behavior and reactions, from an elephant mother's
devotion to her crippled infant to an irritated octopus and a chimp deep in
grief over the death of his mother.  The Smile of a Dolphin will appeal to
the same audience that loved The Hidden Life of Dogs and When Elephants Weep.

In the book's foreword, best-selling author and paleobiologist Stephen Jay
Gould explores the boundary between consistent and seemingly explainable
animal behaviors and the more "anecdotal" occurrences of actions that seem to
suggest complex emotions.  Marc Bekoff's introduction then submerges the
reader deep into the nature of animal cognition and behavior, addressing the
most fundamental issues in the field of animal emotion studies.  How does one
define emotion?  Can we draw a line that separates species that experience
emotions from those that do not?

The chapters that follow examine major areas of emotion - "Love," "Fear,
Aggression, and Anger," "Joy and Grief," and "Fellow Feelings" - through
fascinating essays by noted animal behaviorists and cognitive experts such as
Roger Touts, Jane Goodall (explorer-in-residence at the National Geographic
Society), Irene Pepperberg, and Cynthia Moss.  The essays are illustrated by
collection of 120 dramatic full-color images by some of the world's best
wildlife photographers, as well as the contributing scientists themselves.

Through insights into the universal language of emotions, The Smile of a
Dolphin will provide a better understanding of our own human experience.  A
must-have for any animal lover, this is sure to be one of the most
talked-about books ever created on the subject of animal emotions.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Marc Bekoff is Professor of Organismic Biology at the University of Colorado,
Boulder, and is a Fellow of the Animal Behavior Society and a former
Guggenheim Fellow. He also is a regional coordinator for Jane Goodall's Roots
& Shoots Program.  His main areas of research include animal behavior,
cognitive ethology (the study of animal minds), and behavioral ecology, and
he has also published extensively on animal rights.  He has published over
150 papers and thirteen books, the latest being Species of mind: The
philosophy and biology of cognitive ethology, Nature's purposes: Analyses of
function and design in biology, Animal play: Evolutionary, comparative, and
ecological approaches, Encyclopedia of animal rights and animal welfare and a
book on the lighter side, Nature's life lessons: Everyday truths from nature.
 Bekoff's work has been featured on 48 Hours, in Time Magazine, Life
Magazine, U.S. News and World Report, in a National Geographic Society
television special ("Play: The Nature of the Game"), and in Discovery TV's
"Why Dogs Smile and why Chimpanzees Cry"
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TITLE:
The Smile of a Dolphin:
Remarkable Accounts of Animal Emotions

AUTHOR:
Marc Bekoff
Email: bekoffm@spot.Colorado.EDU

PUBLISHER:
Crown News
299 Park Avenue,
New York, New York 10171, U.S.A.
Tel: 212-572-2545
Fax: 212-940-7868
Contact: Andrea Knebe at aknebel@randomhouse.com

ISBN #:
1-563-31925-X

RETAIL PRICE:
$35.00 U.S.A. (Hardback)
$53.00 Canada (Hardback)

ABOUT THE BOOK:
This unique illustrated book takes an in-depth look at the emotional lives of
animals through the objective eyes of more than 50 scientists who have
devoted their careers to studying animals ranging from great apes to guppies.
 In The Smile of a Dolphin, noted animal behaviorist and author Marc Bekoff
assembles a collection of firsthand accounts offering compelling evidence
that humans are not the only creatures to have rich emotional lives.  The 224
pages of this provocative and colorful book feature observations covering a
wide spectrum of animal behavior and reactions, from an elephant mother's
devotion to her crippled infant to an irritated octopus and a chimp deep in
grief over the death of his mother.  The Smile of a Dolphin will appeal to
the same audience that loved The Hidden Life of Dogs and When Elephants Weep.

In the book's foreword, best-selling author and paleobiologist Stephen Jay
Gould explores the boundary between consistent and seemingly explainable
animal behaviors and the more "anecdotal" occurrences of actions that seem to
suggest complex emotions.  Marc Bekoff's introduction then submerges the
reader deep into the nature of animal cognition and behavior, addressing the
most fundamental issues in the field of animal emotion studies.  How does one
define emotion?  Can we draw a line that separates species that experience
emotions from those that do not?

The chapters that follow examine major areas of emotion - "Love," "Fear,
Aggression, and Anger," "Joy and Grief," and "Fellow Feelings" - through
fascinating essays by noted animal behaviorists and cognitive experts such as
Roger Touts, Jane Goodall (explorer-in-residence at the National Geographic
Society), Irene Pepperberg, and Cynthia Moss.  The essays are illustrated by
collection of 120 dramatic full-color images by some of the world's best
wildlife photographers, as well as the contributing scientists themselves.

Through insights into the universal language of emotions, The Smile of a
Dolphin will provide a better understanding of our own human experience.  A
must-have for any animal lover, this is sure to be one of the most
talked-about books ever created on the subject of animal emotions.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Marc Bekoff is Professor of Organismic Biology at the University of Colorado,
Boulder, and is a Fellow of the Animal Behavior Society and a former
Guggenheim Fellow. He also is a regional coordinator for Jane Goodall's Roots
& Shoots Program.  His main areas of research include animal behavior,
cognitive ethology (the study of animal minds), and behavioral ecology, and
he has also published extensively on animal rights.  He has published over
150 papers and thirteen books, the latest being Species of mind: The
philosophy and biology of cognitive ethology, Nature's purposes: Analyses of
function and design in biology, Animal play: Evolutionary, comparative, and
ecological approaches, Encyclopedia of animal rights and animal welfare and a
book on the lighter side, Nature's life lessons: Everyday truths from nature.
 Bekoff's work has been featured on 48 Hours, in Time Magazine, Life
Magazine, U.S. News and World Report, in a National Geographic Society
television special ("Play: The Nature of the Game"), and in Discovery TV's
"Why Dogs Smile and why Chimpanzees Cry"

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