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Are we smart enough to know how smart animals are? / Frans de Waal ; with drawings by the author.

by Waal, F. B. M. de (Frans B. M.), 1948-

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W. W. Norton & Company, [2016]

Animal intelligence.

Animal behavior.

Psychology, Comparative.

9780393246186 (hc.)

340 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-318) and index.

Magic wells -- A tale of two schools -- Cognitive ripples -- Talk to me -- The measure of all things -- Social skills -- Time will tell -- Of mirrors and jars -- Evolutionary cognition.

What separates your mind from that of an animal? Is it the ability to design tools; a sense of self; or the grasp of past and future? In recent decades these claims have eroded, or even been disproven outright, by a revolution in the study of animal cognition. Waal explores both the scope and the depth of animal intelligence, offering a firsthand account of how science has stood traditional behaviorism on its head by revealing how smart animals really are, and how we've underestimated their abilities for too long. Frans de Waal , the author of Our Inner Ape, is a psychology professor at Emory University's Psychology Department and a researcher at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

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