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. 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.
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. But in recent decades, these claims have eroded, or even been disproven outright, by a revolution in the study of animal cognition.
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. About the Book A New York Times Bestsellerįrom world-renowned biologist and primatologist Frans de Waal, a groundbreaking work on animal intelligence destined to become a classic.
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