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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Foreword by Jane Goodall
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. The ABC’S of Animal Well-Being and Protection
Why I am writing this book: The view from within biology
Moderation and consistency in using animals
Why you are so important
Habitat loss and planetary biodiversity
Animal use: The numbers speak for themselves
The more-than-human world
Speaking for voiceless animals
Minding animals: A personal story
Missing Mom: Candid coyotes
A “rabbit punch” changes my life
It is all right to care about animals
Some guiding principles
Questions to ponder deeply
Animals have feelings
2. Animals in a Human World
Human and nonhuman primates: How close are we?
Retirement homes
Animals and the law: Buying and selling animals as “property”
Listening to animals and taking their points of view
If animals could talk
Anthropomorphism: The benefits of viewing animals in human terms
Anthropomorphic double-talk: Animals can be happy but not sad?
3. Making Decisions about Animal Use: Who Should Be Spared and Who Should Be Sacrificed?
Speciesism: Judging by group rather than individual characteristics
Thought experiment: Humans and a dog in a lifeboat
What defines a “person”?
Evolutionary continuity
Language and tools
Animal intelligence
Who is smarter?
Thought experiment: A healthy mouse or a sick chimpanzee?
The Great Ape Project: Granting legal rights to apes
Going beyond apes: The Great Ape/Animal Project
4. Animal Sentience: Do Animals Experience Pain, Anxiety, and Suffering?
Are animals conscious?
Sentience: Consciously feeling pleasure and pain
Animal emotions
Do animals suffer?
Which animals feel pain?
Is animal pain different from human pain?
5. Animal Rights and Animal Welfare
The difference between animal rights and animal welfare
Do domesticated animals deserve less than their wild relatives?
6. Utilitarianism: Trying to Balance the Costs and Benefits of Using Animals
Weighing costs and benefits
Thought experiment: Utilitarianism at work
Who benefits?
7. Species, Individuals, and the Reintroduction of Wolves: Who Counts?
Reintroducing animals into their wild habitats
Should individuals suffer for the good of their species?
Redecorating nature: Whose interests are more important, ours or the animals’?
Thought experiment: The last wolf on earth
8. Zoos, Wildlife Theme Parks, and Aquariums: Should Humans Hold Animals Captive?
The problem of “surplus” animals
Naturalistic exhibits and environmental enrichment: Trying to make captive lives better
Public opinion about zoos
Education, conservation, biodiversity, and endangered species
Zoos as businesses: The dollar speaks
Animals get the blues in zoos
Thought experiment: Questions about animal captivity
9. Should Humans Interfere in the Lives of Animals?
Moral responsibility
Why do we interfere in wild animals’ lives?
Is a wolf in a cage still a wolf?
The plight of African wild dogs
Thought experiment: Human interference
Deciding on complex questions
10. Alternatives to Eating Animals
The suffering of animals we use for food
Cows, grain, and human starvation
Veal and public opinion
Hunting and fishing
Vegetarianism: A good alternative
Stop the killing of great apes for food
11. Poisons, Eye Shadow, and Fur: Using Animals for Product Testing and Clothing
Lethal-dose tests
Rabbits and the Draize Test for eye irritation
Testing environmental pollutants
Animals used for fur
What can you do?
Other animal models that do not work: Social deprivation and eating disorders
The effects of field-workers on animals
Taking precautions
12. Dissection and Vivisection: We Don’t Need to Cut Animals to Learn about Life
The Three R’s: Reduction, refinement, and replacement
Are dissection and vivisection all they are cut out to be?
The educational effectiveness of non-animal alternatives
What can you do?
Finding non-animal alternatives
It is all right to question how science is taught
13. Where to Go from Here?: We Are the Key to the Future
Care, share, and tread lightly
Getting out and making a difference
How animals are represented in the media and entertainment
Empathy: Taking the animals’ point of view
Ethical enrichment
Doing science with respect for animals: Reconciling facts with values
Deep ethology: Respecting nature’s ambassadors
Forming friendships and partnerships with animals
We are the voices for voiceless animals: Back to the ABC’S
Twelve Millennial Mantras by Marc Bekoff and Jane Goodall
References and Resources
Glossary
Index
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