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    Are we smart enough to know how smart animals are? / Frans de Waal ; with drawings by the author.

    By: Waal, F. B. M. de (Frans B. M.), 1948- [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Edition: First editionDescription: 340 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780393246186; 0393246183; 9781783783045; 1783783044Subject(s): Animal intelligence | Psychology, Comparative | Animal intelligence | Intelligence | Animals | Behavior, Animal | Psychology, Comparative | NATURE -- Animals | PSYCHOLOGY -- Cognitive Neuroscience & Cognitive Neuropsychology | SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology | Animal intelligence | Psychology, Comparative | Intelligenz | Kognition | Tiere | Vergleichende Psychologie | 42.60 zoology: general | Animal intelligence | Comparative psychology | Comparative psychology | Animal intelligenceDDC classification: 591.5/13 LOC classification: QL785 | .W127 2016
    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.
    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.
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-318) and index.

    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.

    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.

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