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Animal Behaviour


Animal Behaviour Books

Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior (A Harvest Book)
In the Shadow of Man
Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
The Emotional Lives of Animals: A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy - and Why They Matter
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
The Genius of Birds
Gorillas in the Mist
Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel
The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates
Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe
Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence—and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process
Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals
Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals
In Defence of Dogs
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Frans de Waal
“ There is no single form of cognition, and there is no point in ranking cognitions from simple to complex. A species's cognition is generally as good as what it needs for its survival. (p. 200) ...more ”
― Frans de Waal, Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
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“ Even today’s highly overbred domestic pigs still possess the behavioural repertoire of their free-roaming cousins. So, what would happen if the borders fell down? Sows would lay down in comfort to feed their young. They would create nests for them in small, leafy ditches, and wouldn’t have to push their noses into sad imitations over a blank, slatted floor. A sow spends the first days after birth alone with her young before gradually introducing them to the family. Free-roaming pigs also follow ...more ”
― Hartmut Kiewert, Animal Utopia: Perspektiven eines neuen Mensch-Tier-Verhältnisses = Perspectives of a New Human-Animal Relationship
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