from dele2451

De Waal's keen insights into the faulty methodologies crafted to determine animal intelligence, especially in lab settings, are very enlightening. Highly recommended for anyone involved in biology studies and/or the natural sciences. The observations regarding alliance dynamics in various interna...

from Stbalbach

There have been two major books published recently on the current thinking about animal intelligence, this one and Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel by Carl Safina. I've read both and the choice is very clear: Safina. Not to say this one is terrible but Safina's book is so well written an...

from bangerlm

Lots of great stories about the amazing capabilities of animals. It has always rubbed me wrong when people are derided for anthropomorphizing animals for describing their emotions or motivations, when often those explanations seem the most straight-forward. I loved the cross-over in ideas from ot...

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The most fascinating aspect of this book is about the various descriptions of animal intelligence (though there are plenty in here), but more about the incredible lengths otherwise very intelligent people will go to deny the existence of intelligence in anything other than a human. These are PhDs...

from Smiler69

I'm glad I read this book, because it's about a topic that interests me a lot, i.e. how ethologists* approach testing animals for signs of intelligence that are in keeping with their environment and physical attributes and needs. I was surprised to discover that ethologists had an uphill battle t...