Do Animals Feel Emotions

You watch your dog's tail go before you have even reached the gate, and you wonder whether anyone is really in there. You loved the books about talking trees and clever fungi, but the bigger question kept nagging you. Do animals actually feel anything?

This audiobook takes that question seriously. Each fifteen-minute chapter covers one emotion, grief, play, friendship, jealousy, joy, fear or comfort, and opens inside a real scene, such as an elephant matriarch pausing at a relative's bones or ravens sledding down a snowy roof for the fun of it. It then tells you plainly what the animal behavior research shows, where the evidence is solid and where honest scientists still argue. Every chapter ends with one small thing to look for in your own pet, at the feeder or on the evening walk.

By the last chapter the animals near you stop being scenery. Press play on your next dog walk and see who is looking back.