Révolutions animales

This remarkable book brings together leading international specialists: detailing their most recent discoveries in the animal kingdom, they encourage us to realise that animals truly are beings that possess sensitivity, intelligence and empathy. The first part of the book introduces us to THE GENIUS OF ANIMALS, their emotions, morality, sense of solidarity, cultures and traditions, sensitivity and the way in which they communicate. The second part, MAN AND ANIMALS, A SHARED WORLD, offers profound reflection on how we should reconsider our relationship with animals, but also the rights which we should afford them and the resulting responsibilities that implies on our part.

Extracts : The canine spirit - Solidarity and morality among animals - feelings of injustice and inequality among apes - Animal emotions - Respecting the dead - Reason and feelings - Ethical implications of research on emotions and pain - The mental worlds of animals - Time travel - As cunning as a crow - The knowledge of bees - Animal words - Great speakers - Conversation with a parrot - Dialogue with dolphins - Creation of an inter-species Internet - Animalising relationships - Communication between man and animals - Putting feelings to the test - Animal suffering - - Ethics and compassion - The ethics of animal well-being - Ritual slaughter and animal sensitivity - Vivisection, an institutionalised paradigm - New science - Reconciling animals - Using animals in therapy - Companions through solitude - At seagull school - Mistreatment - Living alongside wild animals in the future - The arc of life and death, a hope? - The patriotism of penguins - Turmoil on the high seas - Plundering of the oceans - Negotiation with predators - Crimes against wild animals -