Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

by Frans de Waal

Book Overview

What separates your mind from an animal's? Maybe you think it's your ability to design tools, your sense of self, or your grasp of past and future--all traits that have helped us define ourselves as the planet's preeminent species. But in recent decades, these claims have eroded, or even been disproven outright, by a revolution in the study of animal cognition. Take the way octopuses use coconut shells as tools; elephants that classify humans by...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393246183
• ISBN13: 9780393246186
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.3"