Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death - Hardcover
by Susana Mons?
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691260761ISBN-10:691260761UPC:9780691260761Book Category:Science, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Life Sciences, Cognitive Science, Ethics & Moral PhilosophyBook Topic:ZoologySize:8.60 x 5.50 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCT83S4WKC
Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death
How animals conceive of death and dying--and what it 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 corpse. Playing Possum explores what the opossum and other creatures can teach us about how we and...Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691260761ISBN-10:691260761UPC:9780691260761Book Category:Science, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Life Sciences, Cognitive Science, Ethics & Moral PhilosophyBook Topic:ZoologySize:8.60 x 5.50 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCT83S4WKC
Susana Mons? is associate professor of philosophy in the Department of Logic, History, and Philosophy of Science at the National Distance Education University (UNED) in Madrid.
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