Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
What separates your mind from an animal's? Maybe you think it's your ability to design tools, your sense of self, or your grasp of past and future-all traits that have helped us define ourselves as the planet's preeminent species. But in recent decades, these claims have eroded, or even been disproven outright, by a revolution in the study of animal cognition. Take the way octopuses use coconut shells as tools; elephants that classify humans by age, gender, and language; or Ayumu, the young male chimpanzee at Kyoto University whose flash memory puts that of humans to shame. Based on research involving crows, dolphins, parrots, sheep, wasps, b…
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- ISBN: 978-0-393-24618-6
- EAN: 9780393246186
- Produktnummer: 19501573
- Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 340 S.
- Masse: H24.4 cm x B16.7 cm x D2.5 cm 539 g
- Abbildungen: 32 illlustrations
- Gewicht: 539
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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.
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