The animal mind Profiles of intelligence and emotion
Book - 2024
"We are only beginning to understand the ways in which the animal mind is as complex as our own. A prairie dog's vocal language is now the most sophisticated ever decoded, but their unique jump-yip poses as many questions as answers. Gorillas use sign language to describe past events to researchers, so does this mean they ruminate and relive their lives? When an ant looks in a mirror to see a dab of blue paint on its head, they try to clean it off, proving the ant is self-aware like us. The Animal Mind profiles 60 animals as it explores instances of remarkable cognition, communication, consciousness, and culture in the animal kingdom. Full of beautiful portraits and in-depth studies showing these behaviors in action, The Animal Mi...nd offers an illuminating roadmap to animal intelligence."--Amazon.com.
- Subjects
- Published
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New York :
Abrams
2024.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- 239 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9781419768491
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Brainpower: Learning and Memory
- Common chimpanzee
- Clark's nutcracker
- Asian elephant
- Common bottlenose dolphin
- Domestic pig
- Common raven
- European herring gull
- California twin-spot octopus
- Chapter 2. Calculation: How Fast, How Far, How Much?
- Gibbon
- European storm petrel
- Giraffe
- Big brown bat
- Great white shark
- Domestic horse
- Australian emperor dragonfly
- Chapter 3. Communication: Sing, Dance, Jump-Yip
- Blue whale
- Black-tailed prairie dog
- Common zebra
- Superb lyrebird
- Western honeybee
- Sperm whale
- Domestic dog
- Common bottlenose dolphin
- African gray parrot
- Chapter 4. Bonding: Better Together
- Army ant
- African wild dog
- Australian magpie
- Lion
- Vulturine guineafowl
- Jaguar
- African bush elephant
- Chapter 5. Consciousness: Knowing Me, Knowing You
- Ant
- Giant manta ray
- Western lowland gorilla
- Eurasian magpie
- Eancy rat
- Common bottlenose dolphin
- Chapter 6. Winning: Strategy and Tactics
- Common cuckoo
- Spotted hyena
- Slave-making ant
- Gray wolf
- Bluestreak cleaner wrasse
- Chapter 7. Resilience: Mental Fortitude
- Honey badger
- Common raven
- Snow leopard
- Leastweasel
- Bar-tailed godwit
- Emperor penguin
- Chapter 8. Caring: Above and Beyond
- Cape buffalo
- Brown-mantled tamarin
- Humpback whale
- Laysan albatross
- Spiny plunderfish
- Domestic chicken
- Chapter 9. Culture: Look, Listen, and Learn
- Japanese macaque
- Fruit fly
- Common chimpanzee
- Orca
- White-crowned sparrow
- Bonobo
- Select Bibliography
- Photography Credits
- Index
- Photographer Directory
- Acknowledgments