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Wild minds
what animals really think
By Hauser, Marc D. & Dewan, Ted
- ISBN
- 978-0-80505-669-3
- Publisher
- New York : Henry Holt, 2001.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on February 1, 2000
Recently, there have been a number of books, both wildly speculative and calmly scientific, on the topic of the intellectual and emotional abilities of wild animals and pets. Wild Minds is similar to Stephen Budiansky's If a Lion Could Talk (LJ 9/1/98) in asserting that animals have not been proven to possess the kind of cognitive and emotional characteristics that more anthropomorphic writers claim. Rather, Hauser (psychology, Harvard), an expert on animal cognition, draws parallels between animals and human infants, finding in both a fundamental ina...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
