Research Catalog

Title

Monkeytalk : inside the worlds and minds of primates / Julia Fischer ; translated by Frederick B. Henry Jr.

Author

Fischer, Julia, 1966-

Publication

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.

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Additional Authors

Henry, Frederick B., Jr.

Description

xiii, 247 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Uniform Title

Affengesellschaft. English

Alternative Title

Affengesellschaft.

Subjects

• Cognition in animals
• Learning in animals
• SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Zoology > Primatology
• Kognitives Verhalten
• Primates > Behavior
• SCIENCE > Cognitive Science
• Affen
• (bisacsh)SCIENCE / Cognitive Science
• (bisacsh)SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / Primatology
• Primates > Psychology
• Primates > Evolution
• Social behavior in animals

Genre/Form

Einführung.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-237) and index.

Contents

Prologue -- Part one. Social behavior. Primate diversity -- Barbary macaques : model monkeys -- Primate social systems -- Chacma baboons : into the wild -- Guinea baboons : uncharted territories -- The evolution of baboons -- Challenges of the third kind -- Part two. Cognition. What do animals think? -- Physical cognition -- Social intelligence -- Social knowledge -- Theory of mind -- The evolution of intelligence -- Part three. Communication. What is communication? -- The function of monkey sounds -- The evolution of language : beginnings -- Ape language projects -- Natural communication in primates -- Word learning in a domestic dog -- The evolution of language : state of the art -- The evolution of communication -- Conclusion and prospects.

ISBN

• 9780226124247
• 022612424X
• 9780226124384 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2016032594
• 99971744596

OCLC

• ocn944087626
• 944087626
• SCSB-5886504

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries