o experience greater closeness and participate in a wider range of feelings "beyond our imagination" (236).
Masson and McCarthy have written the book for a western audience. They use examples of animal behavior from around the world to show how animals exhibit their emotions. The book is meant to appeal to the ordinary reader and to make scientists question their lack of belief in their own observations about animals. They wish to have people observe the animals around them. The author's premise is that emotional states can be accurately interpreted from an animal's behavior. No one who has watched a mother cat tend her kittens doubts that the cat "loves" her children (16). Most scientists deny that anyone can know that the behavior exhibited means she loves them; scientists say that this is anthropomorphism. These same scientists sometimes agree that anthropomorphism is useful in predicting the behaviors of animals (37). The ability to predict animal behavior by using human emotions should be considered as evidence that animals do have emotional lives and that animals react to their emotions.
Masson and McCarthy begin with the emotions people are least likely to disbelieve an animal is capable of feeling--fear and hope. Most people have seen a dog who cringes from a stick (50). A scientist would likely say that this is a conditioned response. Most people, in contrast, would believe that the dog fears the upraised stick because he has been beaten with a stick in the past. Masson and McCarthy continue to present different emotional states for discussion. The behavior of several species of animals which
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