Full name: Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think

Author: Marc Hauser Year: 2000 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science, Non Fiction, Animals, Psychology Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780805056709 080505670X

Do animals think? Can they count? Do they have emotions? Do they feel anger, frustration, hurt, or sorrow? At last, here is a book that provides authoritative answers to these long-standing questions. Most popular science books t to misrepresent animals, presenting them either as furry little humans or as creatures that cannot feel at all. Marc D. Hauser, an acclaimed scientist in the field of animal cognition, uses insights from evolutionary theory and cognitive science to examine animal thought without such biases or preconceptions. Hauser treats animals neither as machines devoid of feeling nor as extensions of humans, but as independent beings driven by their own complex impulses. In prose that is both elegant and edifying, Hauser describes his groundbreaking research in the field, leading his readers on what David Premack, author of The Mind of an Ape, calls "a masterful tour of the animal mind." Similar books: King Solomon's Ring by Konrad Lorenz The Animal Mind by James L. Gould Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans de Waal If a Lion Could Talk by Stephen Budiansky The Trials of Life by David Attenborough The Emperor's Embrace by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson The Beauty of the Beastly by Natalie Angier Beyond Words by Carl Safina The Octopus and the Orangutan by Eugene Linden Second Nature by Jonathan Balcombe Inside the Animal Mind by George Page Animal Behavior by John Alcock The Book of Barely Imagined Beings by Caspar Henderson How Dogs Love Us by Gregory Berns Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin The Other End of the Leash by Patricia B. McConnell Animals Make Us Human by Temple Grandin Animal Wise by Virginia Morell When Elephants Weep by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson