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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  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: April 2017
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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" L (0.80 lbs) 352 pages
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product
 
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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.
 
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