Catalogue

Record Details

Catalogue Search

[ 2 filters applied ]

Back To Results
Showing Item 2 of 10
Are we smart enough to know how smart animals are? Cover Image E-book E-book

Are we smart enough to know how smart animals are?

Waal, F. B. M. de (Frans B. M.) 1948- (author.).

Summary: "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"--Dust jacket flap.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780393246193
  • ISBN: 0393246191
  • ISBN: 9780393246186
  • ISBN: 0393246183
  • Physical Description: remote
    1 online resource (340 pages) : illustrations.
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2016.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-318) and index.
Source of Description Note:
Print version record.

Search for related items by subject

Subject: Animal intelligence
Psychology, Comparative
Animal intelligence
Psychology, Comparative
Genre: Electronic books.

Electronic resources

Click to access e-item (Prince Rupert Library card required)

► Summaries & More
▼ Additional Content
  • Baker & Taylor
    A Time magazine top-100 influential notable and the author of Our Inner Ape presents a groundbreaking work on animal intelligence that offers a revolutionary exploration of the intricate and complex nature of the animal mind.
  • WW Norton

    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 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.

► Shelf Browser
► MARC Record
Back To Results
Showing Item 2 of 10

Additional Resources