Animal passions and beastly virtues: Cognitive ethology as the unifying science for understanding the subjective, emotional, empathic, and moral lives of animals

Human Ecology Review

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 39-59

  Bekoff, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

AAR; Animal behavior; Animal cognition; Animal emotions; Animal sentience; Cognitive ethology; Ethology

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33646268393     PISSN: 10744827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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