Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are
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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 preeminent species on Earth. But in recent decades, these
claims have been eroded, or disproven outright, by a revolution in
the study of animal cognition. 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 photographic memory puts that of humans to shame. Based on
research involving crows, dolphins, parrots, sheep, wasps, bats,
whales, and of course chimpanzees and bonobos, Frans de Waal
explores the scope and the depth of animal intelligence, revealing
how we have grossly underestimated their abilities. People often
assume there is a cognitive ladder, from lower to higher forms,
with human 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 judge your perception of your
surroundings as more sophisticated than that of a echolocating bat?
De Waal tells of the rise and fall of a view of animals as
stimulus-reponse beings, and opens our eyes to their complex and
intrricate minds. With astonishing stories of animal cognition,
expert science and De Waal's deeply enquiring mind, Are We Smart
Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? challenges everything you
thought you knew about animal-and human-intelligence.
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Granta Books ,
Waal Frans de
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