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The animal mind / by Gould, James L.,1945-(CARDINAL)316511; Gould, Carol Grant.(CARDINAL)316510;
"Selected readings": pages 219-224.
Subjects: Animal behavior.; Cognition in animals.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Kindred beings : what seventy-three chimpanzees taught me about life, love, and connection / by Speede, Sheri.(CARDINAL)404244;
Road to Cameroon -- Commitment -- At the Atlantic Beach Hotel -- Mean streets -- The Mbargue Forest -- Shackled -- The village -- Nothing works, but it all works out -- Forced seizure -- Who's the boss? -- Fateful alliances -- Challenges on my side of the fence -- Pregnancy and motherhood -- Dorothy finds her strength -- The unspeakable -- Heroes -- Necessary trade-offs -- Farewell to our sassy girl -- Dorothy's legacy.
Subjects: Chimpanzees; Cognition in animals.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Kindred beings [large print] what seventy-three chimpanzees taught me about life, love, and connection / by Speede, Sheri.(CARDINAL)404244;
Introduction -- Road to Cameroon -- Commitment -- At the Atlantic Beach Hotel -- Mean streets -- The Mbargue Forest -- Shackled -- The village -- Nothing works, but it all works out -- Forced seizure -- Who's the boss? -- Fateful alliances -- Challenges on my side of the fence -- Pregnancy and motherhood -- Dorothy finds her strength -- The unspeakable -- Heroes -- Necessary trade-offs -- Farewelll to our sassy girl -- Dorothy's legacy -- Epilogue.Sheri Speede always knew that she wanted to advocate for animals. But it was not until she was transporting a chimpanzee away from a biomedical facility in Cameroon that veterinarian Dr. Speede discovered her true calling. She went on to found a forested home for captive and orphaned chimpanzees. This compelling story of that journey reveals the profound resilience and emotional complexity of both the apes and the woman who loved them.
Subjects: Large print books.; Chimpanzees; Cognition in animals.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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What a bee knows : exploring the thoughts, memories, and personalities of bees / by Buchmann, Stephen L.,author.(CARDINAL)331635;
Includes bibiographical references and index."The next time you hear the low buzzing sound of an approaching bee, look closer: the bee has navigated to this particular spot for a reason using a fascinating set of tools. She might be responding to scents on the breeze as her olfactory organs provide a 3D map of an object's location. She might be tracing the route based on her memories of a particular flower or the electrostatic traces left by other bees. What a Bee Knows: Exploring the Thoughts, Memories, and Personalities of Bees invites us to follow bees' mysterious pathways and experience their complex and alien world. Although their brains are incredibly small--just one million neurons compared to humans' 100 billion--bees have remarkable abilities to navigate, learn, communicate, and remember. In What a Bee Knows, entomologist Stephen Buchmann explores a bee's way of seeing the world and introduces the scientists who make the journey possible. What a Bee Knows will challenge your idea of a bee's place in the world--and perhaps our own"--
Subjects: Bees; Cognition in animals.;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 8
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Monkeytalk : inside the worlds and minds of primates / by Fischer, Julia,1966-author.; Henry, Frederick B.,Jr.translator.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-237) and index.Monkey see, monkey do-or does she? Can the behavior of non-human primates-their sociality, their intelligence, their communication-really be chalked up to simple mimicry? Emphatically, absolutely: no. And as famed primatologist Julia Fischer reveals, the human bias inherent in this oft-uttered adage is our loss, for it is only through the study of our primate brethren that we may begin to understand ourselves. An eye-opening blend of storytelling, memoir, and science, Monkeytalk takes us into the field and the world's primate labs to investigate the intricacies of primate social mores through the lens of communication. After first detailing the social interactions of key species from her fieldwork-from baby-wielding male Barbary macaques, who use infants as social accessories in a variety of interactions, to aggression among the chacma baboons of southern Africa and male-male tolerance among the Guinea baboons of Senegal-Fischer explores the role of social living in the rise of primate intelligence and communication, ultimately asking what the ways in which other primates communicate can teach us about the evolution of human language. Funny and fascinating, Fischer's tale roams from a dinner in the field shared with lionesses to insights gleaned from Rico, a border collie with an astonishing vocabulary, but its message is clear: it is humans who are the evolutionary mimics. The primate heritage visible in our species is far more striking than the reverse, and it is the monkeys who deserve to be seen. "The social life of macaques and baboons is a magnificent opera," Fischer writes. "Permit me now to raise the curtain on it."
Subjects: Primates; Social behavior in animals.; Cognition in animals.; Learning in animals.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Animal passions and beastly virtues : reflections on redecorating nature / by Bekoff, Marc.(CARDINAL)326872;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-290) and index.
Subjects: Animal rights.; Animal welfare.; Cognition in animals.; Social behavior in animals.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Calculating chimpanzees, brainy bees, and other animals with mind-blowing mathematical abilities / by Gibeault, Stephanie,author.(CARDINAL)866378; Sinquett, Jaclyn,illustrator.(CARDINAL)851345;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 71-80) and index.Chapter 1: Fish figures -- Chapter 2: Counting calls -- Chapter 3: Bird brains -- Chapter 4: Ape addition -- Chapter 5: Insect integers.Animals know a lot more about numbers than you might think. Guppies can tell large numbers from small ones, hyenas can count, and chimpanzees can use Arabic numerals! Readers will get to know these extraordinary animals and more--and how scientists study their number sense. Each chapter wraps up with an interview with a researcher and a hands-on activity that give readers the chance to challenge their own math skills. Illustrations brimming with personality, along with colorful photos, sidebars, and splashy facts, make for an entertaining delve into these fascinating studies in this second book in the Extraordinary Animals series. A bibliography as well as an "Add to Your Knowledge" section at the back encourage more discovery.Junior Library Guild Selection, 2024
Subjects: Informational works.; Number concept in animals; Cognition in animals;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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The book of minds : how to understand ourselves and other beings, from animals to AI to aliens / by Ball, Philip,1962-author.(CARDINAL)207976;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Minds and where to find them -- The space of possible minds -- All the things you are -- Waking up to the world -- Solomon's secret -- Aliens on the doorstep -- Machine minds -- Out of this world -- Free to choose -- How to know it all."In this book, popular science writer Philip Ball surveys a range of sciences to map our answers to a big, philosophically rich question, one with practical and ethical consequences for today. How do we even begin to think about minds that are not human? Sciences from astronomy to biology, computer science to neuroscience, are mapping the mind in their own disciplinary territories, and Ball pulls the pieces together so that we can appreciate the full picture-the "mindscape" or "space of possible minds." This map makes plain what sorts of minds we might expect to find in the universe. By plotting properties of mind without prioritizing the human, he sheds welcome, new light on a host of fascinating questions: What moral rights should we afford animals? Can we communicate with them? Should we worry that AI is going to take over and run society according to its own agenda? If there are intelligent aliens out there, how would we know? Could we communicate with them? Should we? Understanding the mindscape also reveals ways of making advances in understanding some of the most challenging questions in contemporary science: What is thought? What is consciousness? And what (if anything) is free will? Before Ball turns to other minds, however, he addresses the human mind: what is it? Is it different from the brain? From one person to the next? In this fascinating book of minds, we come to better know our own"--
Subjects: Cognition.; Consciousness.; Brain.; Cognition in animals.; Artificial intelligence.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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Animal wise : the thoughts and emotions of our fellow creatures / by Morell, Virginia.(CARDINAL)327956;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-283) and index.Introduction -- The ant teachers -- Among fish -- Birds with brains -- Parrots in translation -- The laughter of rats -- Elephant memories -- The educated dolphin -- The wild minds of dolphins -- What it means to be a chimpanzee -- Of dogs and wolves -- Why animals matter.
Subjects: Cognition in animals.; Human-animal communication.; Animal behavior.; Animal intelligence.;
Available copies: 14 / Total copies: 14
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Meet the neighbors : animal minds and life in a more-than-human world / by Keim, Brandon,1976-author.(CARDINAL)896029; Lanas, Mattias,illustrator.(CARDINAL)896244;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-344) and index.Introduction -- I: A neighborhood of minds. The essence of intelligence -- Landscapes of the heart -- No animal is an island -- II: Rethinking animals. A new nature ethic -- Animal personhood -- Citizen animal -- III: Close to home. Redeeming the past -- The caring city -- Living with coyotes -- IV: In the wild. Under new management -- The invaders -- Wild hearts -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index."Honeybees deliberate democratically. Rats reflect on the past. Snakes have friends. In recent decades, our understanding of animal cognition has exploded, making it indisputably clear that the cities and landscapes around us are filled with thinking, feeling individuals besides ourselves. But the way we relate to wild animals has yet to catch up. In Meet the Neighbors, acclaimed science journalist Brandon Keim asks: what would it mean to take the minds of other animals seriously? In this wide-ranging, wonder-filled exploration of animals' inner lives, Keim takes us into courtrooms and wildlife hospitals, under backyard decks and into deserts, to meet anew the wild creatures who populate our communities and the philosophers, rogue pest controllers, ecologists, wildlife doctors, and others who are reimagining our relationships to them. If bats trade favors and groups of swans vote to take off by honking, should we then see them as fellow persons--even members of society? When we come to understand the depths of their pleasures and pains, the richness of their family lives and their histories, what do we owe so-called pests and predators, or animals who are sick or injured? Can thinking of nonhumans as our neighbors help chart a course to a kinder, gentler planet? As Keim suggests, the answers to these questions are central to how we understand not only the rest of the living world, but ourselves. A beguiling invitation to discover an expanded sense of community and kinship beyond our own species, Meet the Neighbors opens our eyes to the world of vibrant intelligence just outside our doors."--
Subjects: Informational works.; Instructional and educational works.; Cognition in animals.; Animals.; Human-animal relationships.; Familial behavior in animals.;
Available copies: 15 / Total copies: 19
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