Jeffrey Masson
- Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson is the bestselling author of 9 books on the emotional life of animals. His book, DOGS NEVER LIE ABOUT LOVE, has sold over 1 million copies worldwide. Jeff lives with his family in Auckland, New Zealand. His newest book is Beasts: What Animals Can Teach Us About the Origins of Good and Evil, where Masson looks at why humans have killed 200 million of their own kind in the 20th century alone, while orcas have killed not a single orca in the wild! You can buy this book here: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/beasts-9781608196159/ Or as an Ebook here: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/beasts-9781608199914/
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Dogs | Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
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Do Animals Get Depressed?
I re-read William Styron’s 1991 “tale of horror,” Darkness Visible about his deep depression in the 1980s. I could not help thinking, as I was reading, the big cats don’t get depressed… sharks don’t get depressed… elephants don’t get depressed. … Continue reading →
Posted in Animal Rights, Animals, Anti-Psychiatry, Books, Dogs, Uncategorized, Vegetarianism and Veganism
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Tagged abnormal behavior in animals, abnormal behavior in zoo animals, anger and depression, animals and depression, animals and suicide, animals in zoos, captive animals, cats and suicide, concentration camps and depression, David Foster Wallace, Depression, diabetes and diet, dogs and suicide, dolphins and suicide, drugs and depression, Flipper, genocide, Jane Goodall, Jonathan Franzen, mental illness, narcissism and depression, natural world, no genocide in the natural world, PTSD, rage and depression, Rick O'Barry, styron, suicide in dolphins, The Cove, veganism, whales and suicide
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Dogs and Language
Homo homini lupus is Latin for “man is a wolf to man.” What is this supposed to mean? Presumably that wolves kill each other exactly as do men. Or that wolves kill humans as humans kill humans. But wolves kill … Continue reading →
Do we really know anything about intelligence in dogs or humans?
Yesterday I visited a friend whose backyard garden always enchants me: there are doves flying free who come back to their dovecote in the giant Pohutakawa tree; she has two ultra-tame chickens running free (there are no native mammals in … Continue reading →
Posted in Animal Rights, Books, Dogs
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Tagged animal empathy, animal intelligence, coevolution, dogs, the dog who couldn't stop loving
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