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3.0

It's sad that Bekoff's writing is quite repetitive, because if the text was better edited I would clearly give it 4 or 4.5 stars.

The idea of the book is essential to our modern society: we are treating animals as objects, denied of their rights as beings that feel, but I feel sometimes the point is weakened by Bekoff's insistence in repeating some explanations and ideas that he literally just mentioned a couple of pages before. So it gets a tad tiring.

Still, as a biologist myself, I appreciate Bekoff's attempt to defend the very same animals that compose our 'study objects' (yes, that's how they are called in our field). I just hoped it was better constructed.