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Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xix, 330 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"A lively exploration of animal behavior in all its glorious complexity, from tiny wasps to lumbering elephants-and humans. It's time to leave behind the tired nature-versus-nurture debate. In Dancing Cockatoos and the Dead Man Test, Marlene Zuk asks a more fascinating question: How does behavior evolve, and how is that process similar-and different-in people and animals? Drawing from a wealth of research, including her own on insects, she explores...
3) Mammal
Series
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (62 min) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Reveals the most amazing facts and folklore about our favorite furry animals. Towering or tiny, ferocious or friendly, mammals trot, hop, swim, and soar. Meet the creatures that make up this huge and varied family.
4) Bird brain
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows scientists as they put various birds through aptitude tests to determine their intelligence levels.
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (52 min., 50 sec.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Explores the intelligence of dogs, dolphins, and octopuses. Episodes include: Dog genius; Creative dolphins; Octopus & cuttlefish; and Profile - Irene Pepperberg and her talking parrot, Alex.
Author
Description
"Birds are astonishingly intelligent creatures. In fact, according to revolutionary new research, some birds rival primates and even humans in their remarkable forms of intelligence. Like humans, many birds have enormous brains relative to their size. Although small, bird brains are packed with neurons that allow them to punch well above their weight. In The Genius of Birds, acclaimed author Jennifer Ackerman explores the newly discovered brilliance...
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Formats
Description
"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 forms that are often incomparable to ours? 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...
10) The inner life of animals: love, grief, and compassion : surprising observations of a hidden world
Author
Series
Mysteries of nature trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Formats
Description
Presents a revelatory exploration of the diverse emotional intelligence of animals as demonstrated in stories about loving pigs, cheating magpies, scheming roosters, and rats who regret bad choices.
11) Animal brainiacs
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
"Discover which animal species have the best memories, which ones are the best at solving problems, and how these creatures use their remarkable intelligence to thrive in the wild"--
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
302 pages, 16 unnumbered page of plates : illustrations, portraits (some color) ; 25 cm
Description
"While swimming off the coast of Maui, Susan Casey was surrounded by a pod of spinner dolphins. It was a profoundly transporting experience, and it inspired her to embark on a two-year global adventure to explore the nature of these remarkable beings and their complex relationship to humanity. Casey examines the career of the controversial John Lilly, the pioneer of modern dolphin studies whose work eventually led him down some very strange paths....
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Have you ever wondered what's going on inside your pet's mind? In "What Are Animals Thinking?" find out how a beehive resembles a human brain and whether your dog is really feeling guilty when it gives you that famous 'guilty look'.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
152 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm
Description
"In this fascinating nonfiction account, author Nancy F. Castaldo reveals just what's going on inside the minds of animals, and through understanding animal intelligence we discover more about ourselves, including far more similarities than one might expect. Humans may have the biggest brains, but intelligence is not a quality exclusive to only us!"--
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006], c2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dr. Terrell is a researcher who, along with his wife Maggie, are investigating dolphin intelligence, believing they have the capability of speech. Harold DeMilo, in charge of a major corporation, sponsors their work. But undercover work by government agent Curtis Mahoney reveals that DeMilo is working with a right-wing group planning to kidnap the dolphins and use them to blow up the presidential yacht. Jake and Maggie have to race against time to...
17) Awesome animals
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (75 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Explores the intelligence and behavior of rats, dogs, and pigeons.
Author
Series
Publisher
12-Story Library
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
Features 12 super-smart animals found around the world. Each spread contains fascinating facts, life cycle and habitat information, and interesting traits that make each animal smart.
Author
Publisher
Scientific American/Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
viii, 288 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Description
"In What a Fish Knows, the myth-busting ethologist Jonathan Balcombe addresses these questions and more, taking us under the sea, through streams and estuaries, and to the other side of the aquarium glass to reveal the surprising capabilities of fishes. Although there are more than thirty thousand species of fish?more than all mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians combined?we rarely consider how individual fishes think, feel, and behave. Balcombe...
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