Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

Description

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Frans de Waal
Published: 04/04/2017
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393353662
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 1.00″ H x 8.10″ L x 5.40″ W

About the Author
de Waal, Frans: – Frans de Waal (1948–2024), author of Mama’s Last Hug, was C. H. Candler Professor Emeritus of Primate Behavior at Emory University and the former director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center.