The Resource Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
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- Summary
- From world-renowned biologist and primatologist Frans de Waal comes this groundbreaking work on animal intelligence destined to become a classic.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. But in recent decades, these claims have been eroded--or even disproved 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 flash 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 both the scope and the depth of animal intelligence. 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.People often assume a cognitive ladder, from lower to higher forms, with our own intelligence at the top. But what if it is more like a bush, with cognition taking different, often incomparable, forms? Would you presume yourself dumber than a squirrel because you're less adept at recalling the locations of hundreds of buried acorns? Or would you judge your perception of your surroundings as more sophisticated than that of a echolocating bat?De Waal reviews the rise and fall of the mechanistic view of animals and opens our minds to the idea that animal minds are far more intricate and complex than we have assumed. De Waal's landmark work will convince you to rethink everything you thought you knew about animal--and human--intelligence
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- Unabridged.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (1 sound file (10 hr., 35 min., 41 sec.))
- Isbn
- 9781504712200
- Label
- Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
- Title
- Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- From world-renowned biologist and primatologist Frans de Waal comes this groundbreaking work on animal intelligence destined to become a classic.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. But in recent decades, these claims have been eroded--or even disproved 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 flash 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 both the scope and the depth of animal intelligence. 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.People often assume a cognitive ladder, from lower to higher forms, with our own intelligence at the top. But what if it is more like a bush, with cognition taking different, often incomparable, forms? Would you presume yourself dumber than a squirrel because you're less adept at recalling the locations of hundreds of buried acorns? Or would you judge your perception of your surroundings as more sophisticated than that of a echolocating bat?De Waal reviews the rise and fall of the mechanistic view of animals and opens our minds to the idea that animal minds are far more intricate and complex than we have assumed. De Waal's landmark work will convince you to rethink everything you thought you knew about animal--and human--intelligence
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- technical information on music
- Cataloging source
- TEFOD
- Dewey number
- 591.5/13
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- not applicable
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- other
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- PerformerNote
- Read by Sean Runnette
- Target audience
- general
- Transposition and arrangement
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- Label
- Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
- Link
- http://digital.arapahoelibraries.org/ContentDetails.htm?ID=9026368C-ED30-46FE-AE14-7418D884908F
- Antecedent source
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- Carrier category
- online resource
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- cr
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- rdacarrier.
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- spoken word
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- rdacontent.
- Control code
- ocn947841791
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- not applicable
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- Edition
- Unabridged.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (1 sound file (10 hr., 35 min., 41 sec.))
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Groove width / pitch
- not applicable
- Isbn
- 9781504712200
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- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
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- c
- Other physical details
- digital.
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- Sound
- sound
- Special playback characteristics
- digital recording
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- other
- Stock number
- 9026368C-ED30-46FE-AE14-7418D884908F
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- (OCoLC)947841791
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- Label
- Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
- Link
- http://digital.arapahoelibraries.org/ContentDetails.htm?ID=9026368C-ED30-46FE-AE14-7418D884908F
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Capture and storage technique
- unknown
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Color
- not applicable
- Configuration of playback channels
- unknown
- Content category
- spoken word
- Content type code
- spw
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- ocn947841791
- Dimensions
-
- not applicable
- unknown
- Edition
- Unabridged.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (1 sound file (10 hr., 35 min., 41 sec.))
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Groove width / pitch
- not applicable
- Isbn
- 9781504712200
- Kind of cutting
- not applicable
- Kind of disc cylinder or tape
- not applicable
- Kind of material
- unknown
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
- c
- Other physical details
- digital.
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- sound
- Special playback characteristics
- digital recording
- Specific material designation
-
- other
- remote
- Speed
- other
- Stock number
- 9026368C-ED30-46FE-AE14-7418D884908F
- System control number
- (OCoLC)947841791
- Tape configuration
- not applicable
- Tape width
- not applicable
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