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Are we smart enough to know how smart animals are?

Title
Are we smart enough to know how smart animals are? / Frans de Waal ; with drawings by the author.
Author
Waal, F. B. M. de (Frans B. M.), 1948-
Publication
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2016]

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Description
340 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Summary
What separates your mind from that of an animal? Is it the ability to design tools; a sense of self; or the grasp of past and future? In recent decades these claims have eroded, or even been disproven outright, by a revolution in the study of animal cognition. Waal explores both the scope and the depth of animal intelligence, offering a firsthand account of how science has stood traditional behaviorism on its head by revealing how smart animals really are, and how we've underestimated their abilities for too long.
Subject
  • Animal intelligence
  • Psychology, Comparative
  • Intelligence
  • Animals
  • Behavior, Animal
  • Comparative psychology
  • NATURE > Animals
  • PSYCHOLOGY > Cognitive Neuroscience & Cognitive Neuropsychology
  • SCIENCE > Zoology
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-318) and index.
Contents
Magic wells -- A tale of two schools -- Cognitive ripples -- Talk to me -- The measure of all things -- Social skills -- Time will tell -- Of mirrors and jars -- Evolutionary cognition.
ISBN
  • 9780393246186
  • 0393246183
  • 9781783783045
  • 1783783044
LCCN
  • 2015049994
  • 99971789943
OCLC
  • ocn921868861
  • 921868861
  • SCSB-5886674
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries