![]() Hopefully this book will increase our level of empathy with the fellow creatures we share this planet with, and that we on a grand scale, treat so ill. It mixes anecdotes with empirical and scientific evidence. My youngest dog has a ”play bark” and plays with imaginary friends and foes (since my older dog won't accommodate). That animals can have fun and spend energy on something that is not a means to an end everyone who has a pet knows. Not just fear! Love, hate, shame, regret and empathy as well. If you're social, you need emotions or it just isn't going to work. As mammals we have a similar evolutionary path behind us and a need for social bonding. It's incredibly daft that people think animals - even mammals - can feel neither pain nor emotions. ![]() It's also easily read, well told and Wohlleben's own farm runs as a red thread through the chapters. However, since the theme is incredibly important it definitely gets 4*. ![]() Since this book didn't bring any knew knowledge for me, it would really have been a 3/3,5* book. ![]()
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