| Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? Contributor(s): de Waal, Frans (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393353664 ISBN-13: 9780393353662 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $16.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Life Sciences - Zoology - General - Science | Cognitive Science - Nature | Animals - General |
| Dewey: 591.513 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.4" W x 8.1" (0.80 lbs) 352 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 you knew about animal--and human--intelligence. |
Contributor Bio(s): de Waal, Frans: - Frans de Waal has been named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People. The author of Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, among many other works, he is the C. H. Candler Professor in Emory University's Psychology Department and director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia. |