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Author: Anita Ganeri Publisher: In Focus ISBN: 9780753442333 Category : Animal behavior Languages : en Pages : 64
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How do you measure an animal's intelligence? Can animals learn a language? Which animals use tools? In Focus: Intelligent Animals has the answers! In Focus is a cool, new information series that's perfect for curious kids. These fun books feature modern, magazine-style pages, including top 10 lists, fast facts, quickfire quizzes and more! With pages packed with vivid photography and fun facts, kids will have fun learning about the world around them! Each In Focus book features a contents page, glossary, and index.
Author: Anita Ganeri Publisher: In Focus ISBN: 9780753442333 Category : Animal behavior Languages : en Pages : 64
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How do you measure an animal's intelligence? Can animals learn a language? Which animals use tools? In Focus: Intelligent Animals has the answers! In Focus is a cool, new information series that's perfect for curious kids. These fun books feature modern, magazine-style pages, including top 10 lists, fast facts, quickfire quizzes and more! With pages packed with vivid photography and fun facts, kids will have fun learning about the world around them! Each In Focus book features a contents page, glossary, and index.
Author: Camilla de la Bedoyere Publisher: Kingfisher ISBN: 0753473887 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 66
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Which intelligent animals can use tools? Can animals learn a language? Which animal is the cleverest of all? In Focus: Intelligent Animals has the answers! In Focus is a cool, new information series that's perfect for curious kids. These fun books feature modern, magazine-style pages, including top 10 lists, fast facts, quickfire quizzes, and more! With pages packed with vivid photography and fun facts, kids will have fun learning about the world around them! Each In Focus book features a contents page, glossary, and index, plus front and end gatefold flaps on the cover.
Author: Frans de Waal Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393246191 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 340
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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.
Author: Joanne Mattern Publisher: Red Chair Press ISBN: 1634407091 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 40
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Which animal can find its way through a maze and even learn shortcuts? And which animal is so smart it lets cars do the hard work of cracking open its food?
Author: Lars Svendsen Publisher: Reaktion Books ISBN: 1789141877 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 240
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How do animals perceive the world? What does it really feel like to be a cat or a dog? In Understanding Animals, Lars Svendsen investigates how humans can attempt to understand the lives of other animals. The book delves into animal communication, intelligence, self-awareness, loneliness, and grief, but most fundamentally how humans and animals can cohabit and build a form of friendship. Svendsen provides examples from many different animal species—from chimpanzees to octopus—but his main focus is on cats and dogs: the animals that many of us are closest to in our daily lives. Drawing upon both philosophical analysis and the latest scientific discoveries, Svendsen argues that the knowledge we glean from our relationships with our pets is as valid and insightful as any scientific study of human-animal relations. With this entertaining and thought-provoking book, animal lovers and pet owners will gain a deeper understanding of what it is like to be an animal—and in turn, a human.
Author: G. A. Bradshaw Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300154917 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 353
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“At times sad and at times heartwarming . . . Helps us to understand not only elephants, but all animals, including ourselves” (Peter Singer, author of Animal Liberation). Drawing on accounts from India to Africa and California to Tennessee, and on research in neuroscience, psychology, and animal behavior, G. A. Bradshaw explores the minds, emotions, and lives of elephants. Wars, starvation, mass culls, poaching, and habitat loss have reduced elephant numbers from more than ten million to a few hundred thousand, leaving orphans bereft of the elders who would normally mentor them. As a consequence, traumatized elephants have become aggressive against people, other animals, and even one another; their behavior is comparable to that of humans who have experienced genocide, other types of violence, and social collapse. By exploring the elephant mind and experience in the wild and in captivity, Bradshaw bears witness to the breakdown of ancient elephant cultures. But, she reminds us, all is not lost. People are working to save elephants by rescuing orphaned infants and rehabilitating adult zoo and circus elephants, using the same principles psychologists apply in treating humans who have survived trauma. Bradshaw urges us to support these and other models of elephant recovery and to solve pressing social and environmental crises affecting all animals—humans included. “This book opens the door into the soul of the elephant. It will really make you think about our relationship with other animals.” —Temple Grandin, author of Animals in Translation
Author: Thomas I. White Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 0470469692 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 242
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Have humans been sharing the planet with other intelligent life for millions of years without realizing it? In Defense of Dolphins combines accessible science and philosophy, surveying the latest research on dolphin intelligence and social behavior, to advocate for their ethical treatment. Encourages a reassessment of the human-dolphin relationship, arguing for an end to the inhuman treatment of dolphins Written by an expert philosopher with almost twenty-years of experience studying dolphins Combines up-to-date research supporting the sophisticated cognitive and emotional capacities of dolphins with entertaining first-hand accounts Looks at the serious questions of intelligent life, ethical treatment, and moral obligation Engaging and thought-provoking
Author: Jean-Paul Colemonts Publisher: ISBN: 9781719904155 Category : Languages : en Pages : 63
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Great Science Books for the Little Ones inspire a love of science in your young reader! Age 5-8 years.Human beings have incredible brains which can do remarkable things, but Mother Nature continues to teach us more and more that other animals can also think, solve problems and even do mathematics. Come and discover some of the most intelligent animals in the world and learn a little more about each of them in this book.Children's stories provide a great context for learning science. In this children's book, you will learn who are the 10 of the smartest animals on Earth! The animal kingdom is full of species that have evolved over the course of time, just as humans have. Some of them are better known for their intelligence than others, and have the capacity to perform tasks just as well as people. Whether it's for their memory, object identification, adaptation, or communication, you'll find all the most talented animals here. Learn about the most intelligent animals that you can find in the four corners of the world!Being humans, however, we always believe that we are the smartest of the lot, but are we? Here, we present some of the cleverest creatures around and explain why they are more deeply intellectual than many humans.Researchers are concerned with learning mechanisms and other cognitive abilities - thinking, acquiring knowledge, sensory perception, memory and language. These are the thought processes which form the basis for what we experience and comprehend of the world around us.Dolphins can thus be said to have the potential for very high intelligence, but we can't measure this optimally. Dolphins come from a completely different world, in a way and have a language we can't fathom. Communication is definitely a great barrier in the understanding of animal behaviour."Dolphins are social mammals, capable of enjoying their lives. They form close bonds with other members of their group."Peter Singer""We are all animals of this planet. We are all creatures. And nonhuman animals experience pain sensations just like we do. They too are strong, intelligent, industrious, mobile, and evolutional. They too are capable of growth and adaptation. Like us, firsthand foremost, they are earthlings. And like us, they are surviving. Like us they also seek their own comfort rather than discomfort. And like us they express degrees of emotion. In short like us, they are alive."Joaquin Phoenix"The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog."Mark Twain"There are a lot of obstacles in the way of our understanding animal intelligence - not the least being that we can't even agree whether nonhuman species are conscious. We accept that chimps and dolphins experience awareness; we like to think dogs and cats do. But what about mice and newts? What about a fly? Is anything going on there at all?"Jeffrey Kluger"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." Mahatma GandhiIn this book you will learn about: CrowsChimpanzeesElephantsDolphinsPigsOctopusesDogs& more...
Author: Anita Ganeri
Author: Anita Ganeri
Author: Camilla de la Bedoyere
Author: Frans de Waal
Author: Joanne Mattern
Author: Rubicon (Various Authors)
Author: Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
Author: Lars Svendsen
Author: G. A. Bradshaw
Author: Thomas I. White
Author: Jean-Paul Colemonts