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

Zygon

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 71-104

  Bekoff, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745819007     PISSN: 05912385     EISSN: 14679744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2006.00727.x     Document Type: Article

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