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Author |
: Frans De Waal |
Publisher |
: Basic Books |
Total Pages |
: 367 |
Release |
: 2008-08-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780786724536 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0786724536 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Ape And The Sushi Master by : Frans De Waal
From the New York Times bestselling author of Mama's Last Hug and Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, a provocative argument that apes have created their own distinctive cultures In The Ape and the Sushi Master, eminent primatologist Frans de Waal corrects our arrogant assumption that humans are the only creatures to have made the leap from the natural to the cultural domain. The book's title derives from an analogy de Waal draws between the way behavior is transmitted in ape society and the way sushi-making skills are passed down from sushi master to apprentice. Like the apprentice, young apes watch their group mates at close range, absorbing the methods and lessons of each of their elders' actions. Responses long thought to be instinctive are actually learned behavior, de Waal argues, and constitute ape culture. A delightful mix of intriguing anecdote, rigorous clinical study, adventurous field work, and fascinating speculation, The Ape and the Sushi Master shows that apes are not human caricatures but members of our extended family with their own resourcefulness and dignity.
Author |
: Frans B. M. Waal |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 227 |
Release |
: 1982 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0801838339 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780801838330 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis Chimpanzee Politics by : Frans B. M. Waal
"Precise but eminently readable and indeed exciting... This excellent book achieves the dual goal which eludes so many writers about animal behavior -- it will both fascinate the non-specialist and be seen as an important contribution to science." -- Times Literary Supplement
Author |
: Chris Herzfeld |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 338 |
Release |
: 2017-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300221374 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300221371 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Great Apes by : Chris Herzfeld
Foreword / by Jane Goodall -- The uncanniness of similitude : wild men, simians, and hybrid beings -- Skeletons, skins, and skulls : apes in the age of colonial expansion and natural history collections -- Apes as guinea pigs : primates and experimental research -- Great apes in the eyes of scientists : what does it mean to be an ape? -- Apes that think they are human : astronaut apes, painting apes, talking apes -- Conquering the field : pioneers, the quest for origins, and primates -- Socialities, culture, and traditions among primates : when the boundary between humans and apes blurs -- Women and apes : sex, gender, and primatology -- Becoming-human, being-ape
Author |
: Frans de Waal |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 340 |
Release |
: 2016-04-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780393246193 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0393246191 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by : Frans de Waal
A New York Times bestseller: "A passionate and convincing case for the sophistication of nonhuman minds." —Alison Gopnik, The Atlantic Hailed as a classic, Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? explores the oddities and complexities of animal cognition—in crows, dolphins, parrots, sheep, wasps, bats, chimpanzees, and bonobos—to reveal how smart animals really are, and how we’ve underestimated their abilities for too long. Did you know that octopuses use coconut shells as tools, that elephants classify humans by gender and language, and that there is a young male chimpanzee at Kyoto University whose flash memory puts that of humans to shame? Fascinating, entertaining, and deeply informed, de Waal’s landmark work will convince you to rethink everything you thought you knew about animal—and human—intelligence.
Author |
: Helena Feder |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 212 |
Release |
: 2016-04-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317146407 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317146409 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ecocriticism and the Idea of Culture by : Helena Feder
Ecocriticism and the Idea of Culture: Biology and the Bildungsroman draws on work by Kinji Imanishi, Frans de Waal, and other biologists to create an interdisciplinary, materialist notion of culture for ecocritical analysis. In this timely intervention, Feder examines the humanist idea of culture by taking a fresh look at the stories it explicitly tells about itself. These stories fall into the genre of the Bildungsroman, the tale of individual acculturation that participates in the myth of its complete separation from and opposition to nature which, Feder argues, is culture’s own origin story. Moving from Voltaire’s Candide to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and from Virginia Woolf’s Orlando to Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy, the book dramatizes humanism’s own awareness of the fallacy of this foundational binary. In the final chapters, Feder examines the discourse of animality at work in this narrative as a humanist fantasy about empathy, one that paradoxically excludes other animals from the ethical community to justify the continued domination of both human and nonhuman others.
Author |
: Sarah E. McFarland |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 393 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004175808 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004175806 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Animals and Agency by : Sarah E. McFarland
While many scholars who write about animals deal with animal agency in some way, this volume is the first to position the question of nonhuman agency as the primary focus of inquiry. Section I presents studies of actual animals demonstrating agency; Section II moves agency into new terrain while considering key representations of animal agency in literature; Section III analyzes animals as mediators and as conveyances of human-to-human communication;and Section IV investigates the agency of beings who defy conventional species categories. The Envoi demonstrates how the microscopic polyp is interwoven into notions of agency and mythical superagency. This volume's interdisciplinary explorations press hard on issues of agency to open up space for more questions about how we can understand relationships between the human and the nonhuman.
Author |
: Caroline Hovanec |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 235 |
Release |
: 2018-09-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108661447 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108661440 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis Animal Subjects: Volume 1 by : Caroline Hovanec
Animal Subjects identifies a new understanding of animals in modernist literature and science. Drawing on Darwin's evolutionary theory, British writers and scientists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries began to think of animals as subjects dwelling in their own animal worlds. Both science and literature aimed to capture the complexity of animal life, and their shared attention to animals pulled the two disciplines closer together. It led scientists to borrow the literary techniques of fiction and poetry, and writers to borrow the observational methods of zoology. Animal Subjects tracks the coevolution of literature and zoology in works by H. G. Wells, Aldous Huxley, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, and modern scientists including Julian Huxley, Charles Elton, and J. B. S. Haldane. Examining the rise of ecology, ethology, and animal psychology, this book shows how new, subject-centered approaches to the study of animals transformed literature and science in the modernist period.
Author |
: Juan Carlos Gómez |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 360 |
Release |
: 2009-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0674037790 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780674037793 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis Apes, Monkeys, Children, and the Growth of Mind by : Juan Carlos Gómez
What can the study of young monkeys and apes tell us about the minds of young humans? In this fascinating introduction to the study of primate minds, Juan Carlos Gomez identifies evolutionary resemblances--and differences--between human children and other primates. He argues that primate minds are best understood not as fixed collections of specialized cognitive capacities, but more dynamically, as a range of abilities that can surpass their original adaptations. In a lively overview of a distinguished body of cognitive developmental research among nonhuman primates, Gomez looks at knowledge of the physical world, causal reasoning (including the chimpanzee-like errors that human children make), and the contentious subjects of ape language, theory of mind, and imitation. Attempts to teach language to chimpanzees, as well as studies of the quality of some primate vocal communication in the wild, make a powerful case that primates have a natural capacity for relatively sophisticated communication, and considerable power to learn when humans teach them. Gomez concludes that for all cognitive psychology's interest in perception, information-processing, and reasoning, some essential functions of mental life are based on ideas that cannot be explicitly articulated. Nonhuman and human primates alike rely on implicit knowledge. Studying nonhuman primates helps us to understand this perplexing aspect of all primate minds.
Author |
: Susan Jean Armstrong |
Publisher |
: Psychology Press |
Total Pages |
: 614 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: 041527589X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780415275897 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (9X Downloads) |
Synopsis The Animal Ethics Reader by : Susan Jean Armstrong
The Animal Ethics Readeris the first comprehensive, state-of-the-art anthology of readings on this substantial area of study and interest. A subject that regularly captures the headlines, the book is designed to appeal to anyone interested in tracing the history of the subject, as well as providing a powerful insight into the debate as it has developed. The recent wealth of material published in this area has not, until now, been collected in one volume. Readings are arranged thematically, carefully presenting a balanced representation of the subject as it stands. It will be essential reading for students taking a course in the subject as well as being of considerable interest to the general reader. Articles are arranged under the following headings: Theories of Animal Ethics Animal Capacities Animals for Food Animal Experimentation Genetic Engineering of Animals Ethics and Wildlife Zoos, Aquaria, and Animals in Entertainment Companion Animals Legal Rights for Animals Readings from leading experts in the field including Peter Singer, Mary Midgely and Bernard Rollin are featured as well as selections from Donald Griffin, Mark Bekoff, Jane Goodall, Raymond Frey, Barbara Orlans, Tom Regan, and Baird Callicott. There is an emphasis on balancing classic and contemporary readings with a view to presenting debates as they stand at this point in time. Each chapter is introduced by the editors and study questions feature at the end. The foreword has been written by Bernard Rollin. This will be appropriate reading for students taking courses in philosophy, ethics, zoology, animal science, psychology, veterinary medicine, law, environmental science and religion.
Author |
: Duane M. Rumbaugh |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 344 |
Release |
: 2008-10-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300129359 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300129351 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis Intelligence of Apes and Other Rational Beings by : Duane M. Rumbaugh
What is animal intelligence? In what ways is it similar to human intelligence? Many behavioral scientists have realized that animals can be rational, can think in abstract symbols, can understand and react to human speech, and can learn through observation as well as conditioning many of the more complicated skills of life. Now Duane Rumbaugh and David Washburn probe the mysteries of the animal mind even further, identifying an advanced level of animal behavior—emergents—that reflects animals’ natural and active inclination to make sense of the world. Rumbaugh and Washburn unify all behavior into a framework they call Rational Behaviorism and present it as a new way to understand learning, intelligence, and rational behavior in both animals and humans. Drawing on years of research on issues of complex learning and intelligence in primates (notably rhesus monkeys, chimpanzees, and bonobos), Rumbaugh and Washburn provide delightful examples of animal ingenuity and persistence, showing that animals are capable of very creative solutions to novel challenges. The authors analyze learning processes and research methods, discuss the meaningful differences across the primate order, and point the way to further advances, enlivening theoretical material about primates with stories about their behavior and achievements.