Second Nature: The Inner Lives of Animals (MacSci)

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Second Nature: The Inner Lives of Animals (MacSci)

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There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. What an amazing book. I recommend it highly to everyone. This book, written by a scientist, is a major step up, in the evolutionary chain, for us humans. We humans, in the past, have treated animals and our slaves, like in they are rocks - no feelings, no communication - just inanimate objects.

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They say "fish feel no pain". This is their justification for the torture. Why don't they remove their heads first - kill them first, then gut them? These "beliefs" are what some humans still hold onto as true.

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They say it is true because their father told them this and their father would not lie. This book looks at these "beliefs" in a scientific way. The scientific findings are that yes, animals have nerves and feel pain-but they can't or don't cry or scream. Yes animals feel, yes animals communicate with their young and each other, and they try hard to communicate with humans. This book taught me the truth about the animal world and it is a whole new world for me. I have been treating animals with the old, untrue myths of my ancesters. This is a new world! I needed to wake up and see the scientific truths about the animals that surround me.

This book got me to take a quantum leap up, in my evolutionary chain.

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We all need to read this book. We need to increase our awareness. We need to evolve. We need to take the quantum leap. Please join me in creating a new world today where humans are much more aware of animals and treat them accordingly. Having read "What a Fish Knows," I couldn't wait to read this book.

While it covers some of the same territory, it goes into a large portion of the animal kingdom to let us know how amazing they are and how much like us. Balcombe is an inspiration to the reading public.

Second Nature : The Inner Lives of Animals

I cannot recommend his books high;y enough. This book will change how you look at animals and quite possibly, how you look at yourself. Even for the die-hard pet lover like me, it will still awaken you to look beyond what you think you see. In the first part of the book Jonathan Balcombe gently and eloquently shows us how, what and why animals feel, be this gratitude or grief, pain or pleasure. It is clear that nearly all beings, including fish, have a sense of feeling. As Balcombe writes; "We err mightily when we couple the ability to speak with the ability to feel, because language is neither a source nor a product of sensory acuity".

As the book continues he shows the reader the double standards that humans have lived by in their rather fragile cohabitation with animals, both wild and domesticated. By the third part of the book he writes of the atrocities that humans do to animals citing vivisection, factory farming, fur factories and puppy mills as a small example.

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By the end of this book, I found it very hard to look at a piece of meat as food knowing now what the majority of the animals go through before they reach our forks. If you let it, this book will change both your grocery shopping and eating habits. It has certainly changed mine. Even though I've been reading a lot of books concerning animals, I found this book Second Nature absolutely engrossing. The author gives many vivid examples I'd never known before about how animals feel and think as they go about their lives, whether wild or domesticated, and backs up his observations with scientific data.

The upshot is that the author enlists our respect and compassion for animals as individuals and as species. It is heartening in the last chapter to hear how much progress has been made just since for the ethical and empathic treatment of animals, such as more books citing animals' intellectual and emotional lives, the advent of laws for animal rights, and many more courses about the nature of animals at universities.

Second Nature is at the top of my list of books I'd recommend about animals. Jonathan Balcombe has done what most of us dare not. He has paid strict attention to animals. Second Nature is a thoughtful and beautiful account of what he's seen and learned about them and it's an eye-opener. No one who reads this book will see animals or themselves the same way again. The evidence is in and it's conclusive. I would add to Balcombe's case for the rich inner life and loves of animals that neuroscience supports his evidence.