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Best-selling author Jeffrey Masson shows us the actual animals near the top of the food chain - orca whales, big cats, etc. - can educate us about the roots of good and evil in ourselves. You will discover two supreme predators on the planet with complicated brains in nature: humans and orcas. Inside the 20th century by themselves, one of the animals killed 200 million customers of its own species, the other killed none. Jeffrey Masson's fascinating new book starts here: There is certainly something different about us. In his prior best sellers, Masson has shown what pets can educate us about our very own emotions - about love (pups), contentment (cats), grief (elephants), amongst others. But pets have much to teach us about the negative emotions such as anger and hostility as well, and in unpredicted ways. In Beasts he demonstrates that the violence we perceive in the "wild" is mostly a matter of projection. We web page link the basest human behavior to pets, to "beasts" ("he behaved no better than a beast"), and claim the high surface for our species. We live least human, we think, whenever we succumb to your primitive, animal ancestry. Yet little or nothing could be further from the reality. Animals, at least predators, eliminate to make it through, indeed, but there exists nothing in the annals of animal hostility remotely equal to the violence of humankind. Our burden is the fact that humans, and in particular humans inside our modern industrialized world, will be the most violent pets to your own kind in existence, or possibly ever before in existence on the planet. We lack what all other pets have: a check on the aggression that could destroy the species rather than provide it. It is here, Masson says, that pets have something to teach us about our very own record. In Beasts, he brings alive the richness of the animal world and strips away our misconceptions of the animals we fear, offering a powerful and convincing take a look at our uniquely human propensity toward hostility.
