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| Original Title: | Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? |
| ISBN: | 0393353664 (ISBN13: 9780393353662) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Goodreads Choice Award for Science & Technology (2016) |
Frans de Waal
Paperback | Pages: 275 pages Rating: 3.95 | 9449 Users | 1149 Reviews
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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, bats, whales, and of course chimpanzees and bonobos, Frans de Waal explores both the scope and the depth of animal intelligence. He offers 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. People often assume a cognitive ladder, from lower to higher forms, with our own intelligence at the top. But what if it is more like a bush, with cognition taking different forms that are often incomparable to ours? Would you presume yourself dumber than a squirrel because you’re less adept at recalling the locations of hundreds of buried acorns? Or would you judge your perception of your surroundings as more sophisticated than that of a echolocating bat? De Waal reviews the rise and fall of the mechanistic view of animals and opens our minds to the idea that animal minds are far more intricate and complex than we have assumed. De Waal’s landmark work will convince you to rethink everything you thought you knew about animal—and human—intelligence.
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| Title | : | Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? |
| Author | : | Frans de Waal |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 275 pages |
| Published | : | April 4th 2017 by W. W. Norton Company (first published April 25th 2016) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Science. Animals. Environment. Nature. Biology. Psychology |
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Are we open-minded enough to assume that other species have a mental life? Are we creative enough to investigate it? Can we tease apart the roles of attention, motivation, and cognition? Those three are involved in everything animals do; hence poor performance can be explained by any one of them. if you love animals, you'll probably love this book I love animals and I really liked this book. It was so interesting to read about all the different tests and case studies of animals and animal
Wow. Frans de Waals Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? is a breath of fresh air. It is a refreshing, insightful science book that both enlightens and entertains. In fact, Id call it the most interesting science book Ive read since Godel, Escher, Bach. If youve ever had a dog or a cat, you know they have insides. They think. They relate. And they have distinct personalities. And to see any dog looking at their master, waiting for a command that seems love and respect personified.
I loved this book. In my undergraduate degree, I only had space for a few electives, and one of the classes I took was Primate Behaviour. In this course, we were required to read two Franz de Waal books: Chimpanzee Politics and Our Inner Ape. Usually when Im forced to read something, I dont enjoy it--whether its because I dont have the time to enjoy it or because Im contrary that way is besides the point. My point is that I genuinely loved these books, so much that Im continuing to read de Waals
Humans have always used animals as a natural resource, justifying the killing of our fellow creatures in various ways, but mainly by assuming they are not like us. What if our denialism masks that animals are more like us than we can imagine? Can they think? Are they self-aware? Can they plan, remember and anticipate? Frans de Waal describes scientific research that reveals astonishing answers. When chimpanzees beat human children at video games or birds understand our language or elephants
For awhile Woodland Park Zoo (in my hometown) was in the midst of creating outdoor environments for most of its animals where they could run and hide through tall grasses and shrubbery, climb trees, jump on rocks, or swim in ponds, or swing on tires. With every visit I saw fewer and fewer animals lived in small cement cages. I had bought an annual pass which entitled me to go to the zoo whenever as often as I liked. I worked near the zoo.I used to go to the gorilla display at the Zoo during my
Sometimes it can be hard to review a book for what it is instead of for what you wanted it to be. This is probably most true of fiction, but science books also vary in the level of depth to which they explore their topic. It can be tough as a reader to judge what audience the author is after, and that can lead to some discrepancy in the technicality of the reading material than expected. Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? was a book that delved far more in-depth into the field of
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