Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are

• Author : Frans de Waal
• Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
• Release Date : 2016-04-25
• ISBN : 9780393246193

A New York Times bestseller: "A passionate and convincing case for the sophistication of nonhuman minds." —Alison Gopnik, The Atlantic 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

• Author : Frans de Waal
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2017-03-21
• ISBN : 0393353664

"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

• Author : Frans de Waal
• Publisher : Granta Books
• Release Date : 2016-05-19
• ISBN : 9781783783052

What separates your mind from the mind of an animal? 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 pre-eminent species on Earth. But in recent decades, claims of human superiority have been eroded by a revolution in the study of animal cognition. Take the way octopuses use coconut shells as tools, or how elephants can classify humans

• Author : Jennifer Ackerman
• Publisher : Penguin
• Release Date : 2016-04-12
• ISBN : 9781101980842

“Lovely, celebratory. For all the belittling of ‘bird brains,’ [Ackerman] shows them to be uniquely impressive machines . . .” —New York Times Book Review “A lyrical testimony to the wonders of avian intelligence.” —Scientific American An award-winning science writer tours the globe to reveal what makes birds capable of such extraordinary feats of mental prowess Birds are astonishingly intelligent creatures. According to revolutionary new research, some birds rival primates and even humans in their remarkable forms of intelligence. In The Genius of

• Author : Frans de Waal
• Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
• Release Date : 2019-03-12
• ISBN : 9780393635072

New York Times best-selling author and primatologist Frans de Waal explores the fascinating world of animal and human emotions. Frans de Waal has spent four decades at the forefront of animal research. Following up on the best-selling Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, which investigated animal intelligence, Mama’s Last Hug delivers a fascinating exploration of the rich emotional lives of animals. Mama’s Last Hug begins with the death of Mama, a chimpanzee matriarch who

• Author : Frans de Waal
• Publisher : Penguin
• Release Date : 2006-08-01
• ISBN : 1594481962

Visit the author's Web site at www.ourinnerape.com It’s no secret that humans and apes share a host of traits, from the tribal communities we form to our irrepressible curiosity. We have a common ancestor, scientists tell us, so it’s natural that we act alike. But not all of these parallels are so appealing: the chimpanzee, for example, can be as vicious and manipulative as any human. Yet there’s more to our shared primate heritage than

• Author : Frans B. M. DE WAAL,F. B. M. de Waal
• Publisher : Harvard University Press
• Release Date : 2009-06-30
• ISBN : 9780674033085

Examines how simians cope with aggression, and how they make peace after fights.

• Author : Frans B. M. DE WAAL,F. B. M. de Waal
• Publisher : Harvard University Press
• Release Date : 2009-06-30
• ISBN : 9780674033177