Animals as kin: The religious significance of Marc Bekoff's work

Zygon

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 21-28

  Yarri, Donna ^a  

^a ALVERNIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal behavior; Animal cognition; Animal emotions; Animal minds; Animal morality; Animal play; Animal rights; Animals and spirituality; Animals as kin; Cognitive ethology; Evolution; Hierarchy; Human superiority; Spirituality and animals; Treatment of animals

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646247875     PISSN: 05912385     EISSN: 14679744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2006.00724.x     Document Type: Review

References (21)

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2. Bekoff, Marc. 1998. "Deep Ethology, Animal Rights, and the Great Ape/Animal Project: Resisting Speciesism and Expanding the Community of Equals." Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 10: 169-96.
3. Bekoff, Marc. 2000a. The Smile of a Dolphin: Remarkable Accounts of Animal Emotions. New York: Discovery Books.
4. Bekoff, Marc. 2000b. Strolling with Our Kin: Speaking for and Respecting Voiceless Animals. Foreword by Jane Goodall. Jenkintown, Pa.: American Anti-Vivisection Society; New York: Lantern Books.
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21. Goodall, Jane, and Marc, Bekoff. 2002. The Ten Trusts: What We Must Do to Care for the Animals We Love. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco.