Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 460 p. When a predator attacks, prey are faced with a series of 'if', 'when' and 'how' escape decisions - these critical questions are the foci of this book. Cooper and Blumstein bring together a balance of theory and empirical research to summarise over fifty years of scattered research and benchmark current thinking in the rapidly expanding...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 460 p. When a predator attacks, prey are faced with a series of 'if', 'when' and 'how' escape decisions - these critical questions are the foci of this book. Cooper and Blumstein bring together a balance of theory and empirical research to summarise over fifty years of scattered research and benchmark current thinking in the rapidly expanding...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 324 p. The last decade has witnessed remarkable discoveries and advances in our understanding of the tool using behaviour of animals. Wild populations of capuchin monkeys have been observed to crack open nuts with stone tools, similar to the skills of chimpanzees and humans. Corvids have been observed to use and make tools that rival in...
J.B. Metzler, 2020. — 468 p. Diese Publikation mit dem Titel Affe und Affekt untersucht anhand populärwissenschaftlicher Forschungsmemoiren die Form und Funktion von Emotionen, Affekten und Gefühlen in der Feldforschung mit Affen - und wie gerade Literatur und Film das Verhältnis von Mensch, Affe und Affekt für die Wissenschaft produktiv reflektieren und analysieren. Der Mensch...
J.B. Metzler, 2020. — 468 p. Diese Publikation mit dem Titel Affe und Affekt untersucht anhand populärwissenschaftlicher Forschungsmemoiren die Form und Funktion von Emotionen, Affekten und Gefühlen in der Feldforschung mit Affen - und wie gerade Literatur und Film das Verhältnis von Mensch, Affe und Affekt für die Wissenschaft produktiv reflektieren und analysieren. Der Mensch...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourd, 2017. — 160 p. — ISBN: 0544633350. In Beastly Brains, Castaldo delves into the minds of animals and explores animal empathy, communication, tool use, and social societies through interviews and historical anecdotes. Researchers from Charles Darwin to Jane Goodall have spent years analyzing the minds of animals, and today’s science is revolutionizing...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourd, 2017. — 160 p. — ISBN: 0544633350. In Beastly Brains, Castaldo delves into the minds of animals and explores animal empathy, communication, tool use, and social societies through interviews and historical anecdotes. Researchers from Charles Darwin to Jane Goodall have spent years analyzing the minds of animals, and today’s science is revolutionizing...
Yale University Press, 2017. — 360 p. Myth and media typically cast animals we consider predators or carnivores as unthinking killers — dangerous, unpredictable, and devoid of emotion. But is this portrait valid? By exploring their inner lives, this pioneering book refutes the many misperceptions that hide the true nature of these animals. We discover that great white sharks...
Yale University Press, 2017. — 360 p. Myth and media typically cast animals we consider predators or carnivores as unthinking killers — dangerous, unpredictable, and devoid of emotion. But is this portrait valid? By exploring their inner lives, this pioneering book refutes the many misperceptions that hide the true nature of these animals. We discover that great white sharks...
Henry Holt and Co., 2015. — 480 p. I wanted to know what they were experiencing, and why to us they feel so compelling, and so-close. This time I allowed myself to ask them the question that for a scientist was forbidden fruit: Who are you? Weaving decades of field observations with exciting new discoveries about the brain, Carl Safina's landmark book offers an intimate view of...
Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 2010. - 464 p. ISBN13: 978-0226492797. Understanding the chimpanzee mind is akin to opening a window onto human consciousness. Many of our complex cognitive processes have origins that can be seen in the way that chimpanzees think, learn, and behave. "The Mind of the Chimpanzee" brings together scores of prominent scientists from around the...
The Macmillan Company, 1911. — 297 p. The Study of Consciousness and the Study of Behavior. Animal Intelligence. The Instinctive Reactions of Young Chicks. A Note on the Psychology of Fishes. The Mental Life of the Monkeys. Laws and Hypotheses of Behavior. The Evolution of the Human Intellect.
Torchlight Publishing, 2009. - 160 p. It is not at all surprising that insects behave like insects, birds behave like birds, and mammals behave like mammals. They execute most of their intricate behavior in a predetermined, instinctive manner. But how do they know when and how they should act? Where did the intelligence that is manifested in nature come from? Can the current...