Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? (eBook)

Frans de Waal (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
352 Seiten
W. W. Norton & Company (Verlag)
9780393246193 (ISBN)

Infos

A New York Times bestseller: "e;A passionate and convincing case for the sophistication of nonhuman minds."e; Alison Gopnik, The AtlanticHailed as a classic, Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? explores the oddities and complexities of animal cognitionin crows, dolphins, parrots, sheep, wasps, bats, chimpanzees, and bonobosto reveal how smart animals really are, and how weve 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 Waals landmark work will convince you to rethink everything you thought you knew about animaland humanintelligence.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.4.2016
• Zusatzinfo: 32 illlustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
• Schlagworte: animal • apes • Behavior • Behaviorism • bird • Bonobos • brain • capuchin • Chimpanzee • Cognition • Cognitive • Communication • Dog • Dolphin • Elephant • Empathy • Environment • Evolution • evolutionary biology • experiments • Gorilla • Intelligence • learning • Memory • Monkey • Natural History • New York Times Bestseller • Nonhuman • OCTOPUS • Orangutan • primate • Psychology • Raven • Science • Wasp
• ISBN-13: 9780393246193 / 9780393246193