- Animal intelligence, Psychology, comparative, Comparative Psychology, New York Times bestseller
Hailed as a classic, Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? explores the oddities and complexities of animal cognition―in crows, dolphins, parrots, sheep, wasps, bats, chimpanzees, and bonobos―to reveal how smart animals really are, and how we’ve underestimated their abilities for too long.
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Contemporary, spare, warm and classical in form.
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Frans de Waal
- First published
- 2016
- Pages
- 340
- Publisher
- מודן, Blackstone Audiobooks, Blackstone Audio, Inc.
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- Dutch, heb, English
- ISBN
- 9780393246193
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Frans de Waal has been named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People. The author of Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, among many other works, he is the C. H. Candler Professor in Emory University’s Psychology Department and director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
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