Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves

A New York Times Bestseller and winner of the PEN / E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award

Mama's Last Hug is a fascinating exploration of the rich emotional lives of animals, beginning with Mama, a chimpanzee matriarch who formed a deep bond with biologist Jan van Hooff. Her story and others like it-from dogs “adopting” the injuries of their companions, to rats helping fellow rats
in distress, to elephants revisiting the bones of their loved ones-show that humans are not the only speci...