When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals

This engaging and authoritative portrait of animals’ emotional lives is as groundbreaking as Darwin´s Origin of Species in the facts and insights it presents about the animal kingdom. You’ll meet an Indian elephant known for his facial expressions, a shy gorilla who is proficient in sign language and loves to play house with dolls, and an African grey parrot who, when left at the veterinarian´s, cried, “Come here! I love you. I´m sorry. I want to go back.” Animal lovers know that their dogs, cats, and birds have complex emotional lives, and now scientists have begun to chip away at this traditional scientific taboo.