Ebook {Epub PDF} Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans de Waal

 · 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 Edition description: Reprint. De Waal’s absolutely divine Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? explores how our quest to understand animals is limited by our own self . ― Temple Grandin, author of Animals in Translation and Animals Make Us Human "So, are we ‘smart enough to know how smart animals are’? The question will occur to you many times as you read Frans de Waal’s remarkable distillations of science in this astonishingly broad-spectrum book. I guarantee one thing: readers come away a lot smarter. As this book shows, we are here on Planet Earth with Cited by:

Frans de Waal. W. W. Norton Company, - Science - pages. 11 Reviews. 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. Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? is published by Granta. To order a copy for £ (RRP £) go to www.doorway.ru or call Free UK pp over £ From world-renowned biologist and primatologist Frans de Waal comes this groundbreaking work on animal intelligence destined to become a classic.\\n\\nWhat 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.

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. In animal after animal, de Waal shows the depths of their intelligence and triumphantly affirms that, yes, we are smart enough to see it, and the clues have been there all along. Gregory Berns, author of How Dogs Love Us. A good book. Read it instead of watching TV or playing video games. 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.