Spirit of Ma'at: "Animal Connections" — Vol 3 September 2002

 The Emotional Life of Animals
by Celeste Adams

 Footnotes:

  1. Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Dogs Never Lie About Love: Reflections on the Emotional World of Dogs. Jeffrey Masson has written more than a dozen books, including Why Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals (with Susan McCarthy).
  2. Ibid.
  3. Kristin Von Kreisler, Beauty in the Beasts: True Stories of Animals Who Choose to Do Good. Kristin Von Kreisler has been a staff writer for Reader's Digest, a commentator on animal matters for numerous television and radio programs, a board member of the international organization In Defense of Animals, and a regular judge for the North Shore Animal League's monthly Lewyt Award for Heroic Animals.
  4. Ibid.
  5. Marc Bekoff, Animal play: Lessons in Cooperation, Fairness, Spirit, and Soul. Marc Bekoff is a professor in the department of EPO biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is author of Strolling With Our Kin: Speaking For and Respecting Voiceless Animals, editor of The Smile of the Dolphin: Remarkable Accounts of Animal Emotions, and co-founder, with Jane Goodall, of Ethologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (see their website at ethologicalethics.org).
  6. For further information, see Michael Ryan's "Emily the Cow," Parade magazine, May 4, 1997.
  7. Rupert Sheldrake, Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home: And Other Unexplained Powers of Animals. Rupert Sheldrake studied natural sciences at Cambridge and philosophy at Harvard, and then took a Ph.D. in biochemistry at Cambridge and was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. The author of several books and more than 50 technical papers, he lives in London, England.
  8. Ibid.
  9. Journal of the Gorilla Foundation, Volume 20, No. 2. The journal's editor-in-chief, Francine "Penny" Patterson, Ph.D., received a degree in psychology at the University of Illinois and her doctorate in developmental psychology at Stanford. She is now president and research director of the Gorilla Foundation (Koko.org), adjunct professor of psychology at Santa Clara University, and a member of the board of consultants at the Center for Cross Cultural Communication in Washington, D.C.
  10. Ibid.
  11. Laura Tangley, "Animal Emotions," US News and World Report, 30 October 2000.
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