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Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death -- Susana Mons? - Hardcover

Description: How animals conceive of death and dying--and what it can teach us about our own relationships with mortality When the opossum feels threatened, she becomes paralyzed. Her body temperature plummets, her breathing and heart rates drop to a minimum, and her glands simulate the smell of a putrefying corpse. Playing Possum explores what the opossum and other creatures can teach us about how we and other species understand mortality, and demonstrates that the concept of death, far from being a uniquely human attribute, is widespread in the animal kingdom. Book and Mortar Record Store Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death -- Susana Mons? How animals conceive of death and dying--and what it can teach us about our own relationships with mortality When the opossum feels threatened, she becomes paralyzed. Her body temperature plummets, her breathing and heart rates drop to a minimum, and her glands simulate the smell of a putrefying corpse. Playing Possum explores what the opossum and other creatures can teach us about how we and other species understand mortality, and demonstrates that the concept of death, far from being a uniquely human attribute, is widespread in the animal kingdom. With humor and empathy, Susana Mons? tells the stories of ants who attend their own funerals, chimpanzees who clean the teeth of their dead, dogs who snack on their caregivers, crows who avoid the places where they saw a carcass, elephants obsessed with collecting ivory, and whales who carry their dead for weeks. Mons?, one of today's leading experts on animal cognition and ethics, shows how there are more ways to conceive of mortality than the human way, and challenges the notion that the only emotional reactions to death worthy of our attention are ones that resemble our own. Blending philosophical insight with new evidence from behavioral science and comparative psychology, Playing Possum dispels the anthropocentric biases that cloud our understanding of the natural world, and reveals that, when it comes to death and dying, we are just another animal. Author: Susana Mons? Publisher: Princeton University Press Published: 10/15/2024 Pages: 264 Binding Type: Hardcover Weight: 1.10lbs Size: 8.60h x 5.50w x 1.10d ISBN: 9780691260761 About the Author Susana Monsó is associate professor of philosophy in the Department of Logic, History, and Philosophy of Science at the National Distance Education University (UNED) in Madrid.

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Label: Princeton University Press

Artist: Monsó, Susana

Album: Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death

Number of Pages: 264 Pages

Language: English

Publication Name: Playing Possum : How Animals Understand Death

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Publication Year: 2024

Item Height: 0.9 in

Subject: Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Animal & Comparative Psychology, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Life Sciences / Zoology / General

Type: Textbook

Item Weight: 15.9 Oz

Subject Area: Philosophy, Science, Psychology

Author: Susana Monsó

Item Length: 8.7 in

Item Width: 5.7 in

Format: Hardcover

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