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When Elephants Weep
When Elephants Weep
Nov 20, 2024 1:28 PM

Author:Jeffrey Masson,Susan McCarthy

When Elephants Weep

For more than 100 years, scientists have denied that animals experience emotions, yet this remarkable and groundbreaking book proves what animal-lovers have known to be true: wolves, tigers, giraffes, elephants and many other creatures exhibit all kinds of feelings - hope, fear, shame, love, compassion. From Ola, the irritable whale, to Toto, the chimpanzee who nursed his owner back to health, this book collects together for the first time a vast range of case histories which show the extraordinary complexity of the animal world, and the tumult of emotions that govern it.

Reviews

Powerful stuff... Accessible and entertaining

—— Guardian

A masterpiece... The most comprehensive and compelling argument for animal sensibility that I've yet seen

—— Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

A powerful case for re-examining our entire relationship with the animal world

—— Brian Jackman , The Times

Among animal experts, When Elephants Weep is being hailed as a milestone in the battle to make man understand he is only one member of an enormous family

—— George Gordon , Daily Mail

Compelling... The job of demystifying science is completed with style, jargon-free and elegantly written

—— Oliver Robinson , Observer

Fascinating and engaging

—— Sunday Times

Your One Wild and Precious Life . . . will transform your thinking

—— Irish Farmers Journal

It reframed so much for me

—— Aoibhín Garrihy

The rotund nature of the work makes it feel like a foundational text, accessible to anyone who seeks to know more about themselves and something any trainee psychologist would enjoy. It astutely examines how attachments to people or patterns can speed up, stunt or spark our growth, and, most importantly, what we can do about it.

No matter where you locate yourself in this book there's an energy to the prose that makes it a fascinating read.

But if every love story is a ghost story, as David Foster Wallace says, then Gaffney's new book resurrects your original love story and the ghost that it conjures. She provides instructions on how to vanquish the past and understand connection, so a new cycle of living is possible.

This book is a powerful reminder that history does not have to dictate our future if we can, somehow, amid the chaos of life, listen now and again.

—— Orla Tinsley , Irish Times

This book is a practical guide to making the most of our lives, within a revised framework, at every stage.

—— Anne Cunningham , The Anglo-Celt

Gaffney invariably gets to the core of things and always seems to talk to one directly. If she has a recipe for facing the next stage in life, it's going to be one worth trying

—— Orna Mulcahy , The Gloss

An expertly organised tour through life

—— Irish Times
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