Playing possum how animals understand death
"How animals conceive of death and dying-and what they 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...
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Princeton University Press,
[2024]
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / by Mark Rowlands
- Introduction: The Silence of the Chimps
- The Ant who Attended her Own Funeral
- The Whale who Carried her Baby Across Half the World
- The Ape who Played House with Corpses
- The Dog who Mistook his Human for a Snack
- The Elephant who Collected Ivory
- The Opossum who Was Both Dead and Alive
- Conclusion: The Animal who Brought Flowers to the Dead.
