A young antelope was being dragged into a river by a crocodile. A nearby hippopotamus saw what was happening and charged the croc, which released the antelope. The hippo gently pulled the antelope up the riverbank, comforting and protecting it until it died. Was this compassion? A zoo monkey routinely used a banana to bribe a moose to carry him across a moat designed to keep him confined to a small island. Was this cleverness? Each spread of this book focuses on a feeling: compassion, loyalty, grief, deceitfulness, parental devotion, romantic love, vengefulness, joy, helpfulness, democratic choices, cleverness, communication, and love of beauty. Readers are given a definition of the feeling, true stories of animals in nature or captivity displaying the feeling, gorgeous artwork, and prompts to ask readers about their experiences with the feeling.