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Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as animal-behaviour)
avg rating 3.97 — 17,067 ratings — published 2016
Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior (A Harvest Book)
by (shelved 9 times as animal-behaviour)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,118 ratings — published 2004
In the Shadow of Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as animal-behaviour)
avg rating 4.37 — 9,916 ratings — published 1971
Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as animal-behaviour)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,909 ratings — published 2019
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as animal-behaviour)
avg rating 4.46 — 39,857 ratings — published 2022
The Genius of Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as animal-behaviour)
avg rating 4.04 — 14,533 ratings — published 2016
Gorillas in the Mist (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as animal-behaviour)
avg rating 4.16 — 21,418 ratings — published 1983
Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as animal-behaviour)
avg rating 4.41 — 4,844 ratings — published 2015
The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as animal-behaviour)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,800 ratings — published 2013
Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as animal-behaviour)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,598 ratings — published 1990
Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence—and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as animal-behaviour)
avg rating 4.11 — 10,404 ratings — published 2008
The Emotional Lives of Animals: A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy - and Why They Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as animal-behaviour)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,897 ratings — published 2007
Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as animal-behaviour)
avg rating 3.67 — 518 ratings — published 2009
What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as animal-behaviour)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,049 ratings — published 2016
Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as animal-behaviour)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,293 ratings — published 2009
In Defence of Dogs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as animal-behaviour)
avg rating 3.99 — 953 ratings — published 2011
My Life with the Chimpanzees (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as animal-behaviour)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,371 ratings — published 1988
The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as animal-behaviour)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,699 ratings — published 2009
An Introduction to Animal Behaviour (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as animal-behaviour)
avg rating 4.17 — 133 ratings — published 1972
The Culture Clash (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as animal-behaviour)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,842 ratings — published 1997
Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as animal-behaviour)
avg rating 3.63 — 18,842 ratings — published 2009
Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex among Apes (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as animal-behaviour)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,118 ratings — published 1982
Animal Behaviour (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as animal-behaviour)
avg rating 3.57 — 42 ratings — published 2008
Other Minds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as animal-behaviour)
avg rating 3.87 — 30,088 ratings — published 2016
A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as animal-behaviour)
avg rating 4.39 — 9,220 ratings — published 2001
Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as animal-behaviour)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,518 ratings — published 2013
The Power of Positive Dog Training (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as animal-behaviour)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,083 ratings — published 2001
Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as animal-behaviour)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,490 ratings — published 2005
How Dogs Love Us: A Neuroscientist and His Adopted Dog Decode the Canine Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as animal-behaviour)
avg rating 3.97 — 7,746 ratings — published 2013
On Talking Terms with Dogs: Calming Signals (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as animal-behaviour)
avg rating 4.34 — 4,966 ratings — published 2005
The Other End of the Leash: Why We Do What We Do Around Dogs (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as animal-behaviour)
avg rating 4.40 — 10,013 ratings — published 2002
Second Nature: The Inner Lives of Animals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as animal-behaviour)
avg rating 4.03 — 320 ratings — published 2010
The Cognitive Animal: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives on Animal Cognition (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as animal-behaviour)
avg rating 4.26 — 35 ratings — published 2002
When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as animal-behaviour)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,095 ratings — published 1994
Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as animal-behaviour)
avg rating 4.21 — 26,464 ratings — published 1963
S Chand Animal Behaviour (Ethology)
by (shelved 2 times as animal-behaviour)
avg rating 3.85 — 82 ratings — published
Bird Minds: Cognition and Behaviour of Australian Native Birds (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as animal-behaviour)
avg rating 4.21 — 56 ratings — published 2015
Bitch: On the Female of the Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as animal-behaviour)
avg rating 4.44 — 7,921 ratings — published 2022
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as animal-behaviour)
avg rating 3.94 — 64,340 ratings — published 2015
The Elephant Whisperer: Learning About Life, Loyalty and Freedom from a Remarkable Herd of Elephants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as animal-behaviour)
avg rating 4.51 — 34,953 ratings — published 2009
The Homing Instinct: Meaning & Mystery in Animal Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as animal-behaviour)
avg rating 3.75 — 730 ratings — published 2010
The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as animal-behaviour)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,482 ratings — published 2020
The Unexpected Truth About Animals: A Menagerie of the Misunderstood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as animal-behaviour)
avg rating 4.25 — 5,500 ratings — published 2017
Elephants: Birth, Life, and Death in the World of the Giants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as animal-behaviour)
avg rating 3.58 — 346 ratings — published 2020
The Naked Ape (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as animal-behaviour)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,108 ratings — published 1967
How Dogs Learn (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as animal-behaviour)
avg rating 4.23 — 673 ratings — published 1999
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as animal-behaviour)
avg rating 4.16 — 198,968 ratings — published 1976
The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief, and Compassion: Surprising Observations of a Hidden World (Audio CD)
by (shelved 2 times as animal-behaviour)
avg rating 3.76 — 10,314 ratings — published 2016
Do As I Do: Using Social Learning to Train Dogs (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as animal-behaviour)
avg rating 3.95 — 57 ratings — published 2014
Excel-erated Learning: Explaining in plain English how dogs learn and how best to teach them (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as animal-behaviour)
avg rating 4.19 — 497 ratings — published 1996
“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 the kindergarten principle: if a sow needs to go and look for food, another will look after the little ones. ~ Hilal Sezgin”
― Animal Utopia: Perspektiven eines neuen Mensch-Tier-Verhältnisses = Perspectives of a New Human-Animal Relationship
― Animal Utopia: Perspektiven eines neuen Mensch-Tier-Verhältnisses = Perspectives of a New Human-Animal Relationship
“Why did Dodgson just stand there like that? That's not the way to act around predators. You get caught around lions, you make a lot of noise, wave your hands around, throw things at them. Try to scare them off. You don't just stand there."
"He probably read the wrong research paper. There's been a theory going around that tyrannosaurs can only see movement. A guy named Roxton made casts of rex braincases, and concluded tyrannosaurs had the brain of a frog."
"Roxton is an idiot. He doesn't know enough anatomy to have sex with his wife. His paper was a joke."
"What paper?"
"Roxton believed that tyrannosaurs had a visual system like an amphibian: like a frog. A frog sees motion but doesn't see stillness. But it is quite impossible that a predator such as a tyrannosaur would have a visual system that worked that way. Quite impossible. Because the most common defence of prey animals is to freeze. A deer or something like that, it senses danger and it freezes. A predator has to be able to see them anyway. And of course a tyrannosaur could.”
― The Lost World
"He probably read the wrong research paper. There's been a theory going around that tyrannosaurs can only see movement. A guy named Roxton made casts of rex braincases, and concluded tyrannosaurs had the brain of a frog."
"Roxton is an idiot. He doesn't know enough anatomy to have sex with his wife. His paper was a joke."
"What paper?"
"Roxton believed that tyrannosaurs had a visual system like an amphibian: like a frog. A frog sees motion but doesn't see stillness. But it is quite impossible that a predator such as a tyrannosaur would have a visual system that worked that way. Quite impossible. Because the most common defence of prey animals is to freeze. A deer or something like that, it senses danger and it freezes. A predator has to be able to see them anyway. And of course a tyrannosaur could.”
― The Lost World