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From world-renowned biologist and primatologist Frans de Waal comes this groundbreaking focus on animal intellect destined to become a classic. What separates your brain from an animal's? Maybe you think it's your capability to design tools, your sense of do it yourself, or your knowledge of former and future - all traits which may have helped us explain ourselves as the planet's preeminent kinds. However in recent decades, these boasts have been eroded - or even disproved outright - by a revolution in the analysis of pet animal cognition. Take the way octopuses use coconut shells as tools; elephants that classify humans by time, gender, and terminology; or Ayumu, the young man chimpanzee at Kyoto School whose flash storage area puts that of humans to pity. Based on research affecting crows, dolphins, parrots, sheep, wasps, bats, whales, and undoubtedly chimpanzees and bonobos, Frans de Waal explores both the range and the depth of pet animal intellect. He offers a firsthand profile of how technology has stood traditional behaviorism on its mind by disclosing how smart family pets are really - and exactly how we've underestimated their talents for too much time. People often suppose a cognitive ladder from lower to raised forms, with our own intelligence at the top. But what if it is more like a bush, with cognition taking different, often incomparable forms? Might you presume yourself dumber than a squirrel because you're less adept at recalling the locations of hundreds of buried acorns? Or might you judge your understanding of your surroundings as more sophisticated than that of an echolocating bat? De Waal reviews the go up and fall season of the mechanistic view of family pets and opens our imagination to the theory that animal imagination are more intricate and complex than we've assumed. De Waal's landmark work will encourage you to rethink everything you thought you realized about pet animal - and human - intelligence.
