Clever as a Fox: Animal Intelligence and what it Can Teach Us about OurselvesHarvard University Press, 2002 - 228 Seiten Dogs are smarter than cats, dolphins and chimps are more clever than both, and we who determine the rankings top the scale--or so we think. But are we thinking clearly? To appreciate the mental abilities of the owl and the pussycat, the tortoise and the hare, requires a commitment to unraveling the nature of intelligence--a tricky and controversial proposition that Sonja Yoerg sets out to explore in this learned, lucid, and entertaining book about our complicated, often erroneous notions about animal intelligence. With forays into evolutionary biology, behavioral science, and comparative psychology, Clever as a Fox reveals the promise and pitfalls inherent in any attempt to assess animal intelligence. Along with the concepts we deploy to define and compare intelligence, Yoerg looks at the expectations and prejudices that cloud our judgment of the animal mind, perceptions shaped as much by Aesop and Disney as by direct observation of our fellow creatures. And because such perceptions are inextricably linked with judgments of value--ideas about animal mentality have much to do with which species end up on our laps and which on our plates--this deeply revealing look at how we think about animal intelligence should help us use our own intelligence more wisely. |
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... experiences are the mental events that you know about without the help of scientists . So , what kind of mental event is thinking ? The kind that is also a mental experience , or the kind that is hidden from your mind's eye , or ...
... experience pain , but couldn't other species , at least some of them , have developed mechanisms that deliver the behavior - modifying goods without the painful side effects ? If a worm retreats from a sharp tweak , did it feel pain ...
... experience of pain . Or it may be that social animals ( like dogs , but not cats ) are designed to communicate distress , so as to enlist the aid of group members , especially kin . The truth is , we just don't know . We are not going ...
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A Dim and Clouded Eye | 1 |
The Interspecies Cognitive Olympics | 16 |
Angels to Insects | 34 |
Urheberrecht | |
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Clever as a Fox: Animal Intelligence and what it Can Teach Us about Ourselves Sonja Ingrid Yoerg Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2002 |
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