About the Author:
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, former Sanskrit scholar and Projects Director of the Sigmund Freud Archives, has written more than a dozen books, including the bestsellers The Pig Who Sang to the Moon, The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats, Dogs Never Lie About Love, and When Elephants Weep. A longtime resident of Berkeley, California, he now lives in New Zealand with his wife, two sons, and five cats.
Review:
“Truly fascinating . . . Masson brings the behavior of animal subjects vividly and enchantingly to life.”
—JANE GOODALL
“MAGNIFICIENT . . . GROUNDBREAKING . . . FASCINATING INSIGHTS INTO THE ANIMAL WORLD.”
—ELIZABETH MARSHALL THOMAS
Author of The Hidden Lives of Dogs
“A dazzling smorgasbord of stories about fatherhood in the animal kingdom. Masson’s genius is his ability to ferret out the common denominators. . . . A very timely contribution.”
—The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
“An ode to fatherhood. Masson’s celebration of exotic parenting styles . . . become a vibrant plea for the care we should all take—care of our children, or each other, and of other species.”
—RICHARD WRANGHAM
Chair, biological anthropology,
Department of Anthropology, Harvard University
“A valuable and fascinating contribution to the debate on man’s relation to nature. Even for those who disagree, the wit of Jeffrey Masson’s argument and the thousand little facts and anecdotes he serves with it make this book a pleasure.”
—MARK KURLANSKY
Author of 1968 and Cod
“Must reading as we enter the twenty-first century. . . . I recommend this book to all people who want to make a better world for future generations.”
—MARC BEKOFF
Professor of biology
University of Colorado at Boulder
Coauthor of Nature’s Life Lessons
“Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson is our boldest speculator.”
—Los Angeles Times
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