are we smart enough to know how smart animals are by frans de waal

People often assume a cognitive ladder, from lower to higher forms, with our own intelligence at the top.

He offers 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. Based on research involving crows, dolphins, parrots, sheep, wasps, bats, whales, and of course chimpanzees and bonobos, Frans de Waal explores both the scope and the depth of animal intelligence. Take the way octopuses use coconut shells as tools elephants that classify humans by age, gender, and language or Ayumu, the young male chimpanzee at Kyoto University whose flash memory puts that of humans to shame. But in recent decades, these claims have eroded, or even been disproven outright, by a revolution in the study of animal cognition. 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. OL17762162W Page_number_confidence 94.17 Pages 362 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.15 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20211021175211 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 323 Scandate 20211016113947 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780393246186 Tts_version 4.From world-renowned biologist and primatologist Frans de Waal, a groundbreaking work on animal intelligence destined to become a classic. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 14:19:49 Autocrop_version 0.0.3_books-20210916-0.1 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA40265411 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

Are we smart enough to know how smart animals are by frans de waal