Mama's Last Hug : Animal Emotions and What They Teach Us about Ourselves by Frans de Waal novel 'With precision and razor-sharp accuracy

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Mama's Last Hug : Animal Emotions and What They Teach Us about Ourselves by Frans de Waal novel 'With precision and razor-sharp accuracyMama's Last Hug is a whirlwind tour of new ideas and findings about animal emotions, based on Frans de Waal's renowned studies of the social and emotional lives of chimpanzees, bonobos and other primates. It opens with the moving farewell between Mama, a dying 59 year old chimpanzee matriarch, and Jan Van Hoof, who was Frans de Waal's mentor and thesis advisor. The filmed event has since gone viral (over 9. 5 million views on YouTube). De Waal