Helpful Score: 6
This book is a must read for and animal lover out there. The thought and insight into the minds and emotions of animals from the author leaves you pondering the wonderful question "Can animals feel much like humans?" This book is a wonderful story and documented journey of that very question.
Lora R. (lorabanora) reviewed When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals on + 157 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 5
I have mixed feelings about this book. I really appreciate that animals are getting their 'say' out there. They have feelings, memory, experience, etc. But is this book what they would actually say? Somehow I doubt this on too many levels. I kind of get the feeling from this book that bad people eat animals; but what does that make animals who eat animals? I was not convinced by the hit-over-the-head idea that eating animals is bad. I really do agree that we need to deal with them humanely. I mean, even the lion lets his food go free range and organic.
Chris H. (redheadindian) reviewed When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals on + 55 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
A masterpiece - the most comprehensive and compelling argument for animal sensibility ever written.
Helpful Score: 3
This book is a very intellectual, insightful documentation of man verses science. This book unfortunately did not hold my attention and I found myself reading it in short spurts without finishing it.
Helpful Score: 3
As a lifelong dog lover, I agree 100% with the book's premise that animals have vivid and complex emotional lives. However, I was completely turned off in the early pages by the author's obvious disdain for those who stand behind the scientific method! I'm sure it's a wonderful book for someone not bothered by an editorial tone of that nature.
