Frans de Waal

Are We Smart Enough How Smart Animals Are?

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Hailed as a classic, Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? explores the oddities and complexities of animal cognition-in crows, dolphins, parrots, sheep, wasps, bats, chimpanzees, and bonobos-to reveal how smart animals really are, and how we've underestimated their abilities for too long. Did you know that octopuses use coconut shells as tools, that elephants classify humans by gender and language, and that there is a young male chimpanzee at Kyoto University whose flash memory puts that of humans to shame? Fascinating, entertaining, and deeply informed, de Waal's landmark work will convince you to rethink everything you thought… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-0-393-35366-2
EAN: 9780393353662
Produktnummer: 20559741
Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Seitenangabe: 352 S.
Masse: H20.9 cm x B14.1 cm x D2.2 cm 282 g
Gewicht: 282

Über den Autor

Frans de Waal, author of Mama's Last Hug and Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, is a professor of psychology at Emory University and director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.