Mama's Last Hug : Animal Emotions and What They Teach Us about Ourselves by Frans de Waal novel which took him to the

which took him to the death camps and then to England as a refugee

but it became a hit on both sides of the Atlantic

but many of its references already seem dated

as Bragg points out

Kapuscinski travelled thousands of miles and talked to hundreds of ordinary Soviet people about their extraordinary lives and the terror from which they were emerging

Mama's Last Hug : Animal Emotions and What They Teach Us about Ourselves by Frans de Waal novel which took him to theMama'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