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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xix, 330 pages ; 25 cm
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"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...
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"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...
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"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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"Following a mysterious murder on an island off the coast of Vietnam, a research team convenes to study an octopus community that seems to be developing its own language and culture. Humans, AIs, and animals are swept up in the machinations of governments and corporations in this near-future thriller about the nature of intelligence"--
7) 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.
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.
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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"--
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
302 pages, 16 unnumbered page of plates : illustrations, portraits (some color) ; 25 cm
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"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....
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
152 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm
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"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!"--
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Publisher
Scientific American/Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
viii, 288 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
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"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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