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Pleasurable Kingdom: Animals and the Nature of Feeling Good [Hardcover]

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Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (18 April 2006)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1403986010
ISBN-13: 978-1403986016
Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13.5 x 3 cm

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Mary Midgely in the Times Higher Educational Supplement, August 2006

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'Balcombe tempts us to consider…the experiences of animals in more ways than traditional science has yet acknowledged, perhaps even imagined.'

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4.0 out of 5 stars Hymn to Pleasure, 20 April 2010

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There is a chapter in 'Pleasurable Kingdom' entitled 'Transcendent Pleasures' which has a section headed 'Mad with joy'. Here we learn about the delight of chimpanzees, released from their winter quarters at Arnham zoo, and that of other chimps given shelter from rain, about the raptures felt by mules brought to the surface after years working in a coal mine, about the joy of dolphins escaping from purse seine nets, of dogs anticipating walks and cattle let into fields after long winters confined in byres. When elephants meet again after a period of absence they can create pandemonium.
Jonathan Balcombe has created a magnificent hymn celebrating the pleasures experienced by animals, from their delight in play, to the enjoyment they find in food, touch, uninhibited sex and love, to the happiness they derive when exhibiting their skills and intelligence and in appreciating those of others. For too long, those of us who thought of such things at all, have dwelt on the harshness of nature and have not allowed the sweet notes to enter our consciousness.
As we listen to the glorious music the images presented before us in rapid succession seem to contain no shadow, until we are finally shown the long, dark shadow thrown by cruel man. We have to look very closely to see any other darkness, but it is there. We see it when we realise that the pleasures described in 'Mad with joy' would not exist were it not for hardship and loss. The apparent bliss of crows standing in the smoke stream of a chimney or spreading their wings over discarded cigarette butts in a railway terminus, may not be because of intoxication, but simply the relief experienced after removal of the fleas which had been driving the birds to distraction. I suspect that a life of uninterrupted pleasure would be no more satisfying for an animal than it would be for a human.
It seems begrudging to award this book only four stars instead of five. I enjoyed it immensely, but these shadowless, too-numerous animals hopping in and out of my consciousness failed to touch my heart in the way that, say, Doris Lessing's cats did.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic, enjoyable, 26 Dec 2009

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I enjoyed it a lot. I love his point of view of animal consciousness and there are a lot of examples which should be taken in consideration before deciding how do you feel about animals. I really recommend it!

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