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autobiographies (literary works) Autobiographies. bibliography Biographies biographyDevine, Alexis
Summary: "Alexis Devine, creator of the wildly popular TikTok account @WhatAboutBunny with over 8.3 million followers, delivers a memoir loaded with wit and passion for animals, as well as the vulnerability and authenticity of a woman who learned to take care of herself by learning to talk to her dog"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DEVINE, ALEXIS DEVMorell, Virginia.
Summary: Explores the frontiers of research on animal cognition and emotion, offering a surprising examination into the hearts and minds of wild and domesticated animals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 591.513 MORCastaldo, Nancy F. (Nancy Fusco)
Summary: "In this fascinating nonfiction account, author Nancy F. Castaldo reveals just what's going on inside the minds of animals, and through understanding animal intelligence we discover more about ourselves, including far more similarities than one might expect. Humans may have the biggest brains, but intelligence is not a quality exclusive to only us!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 590 CASGregg, Justin
Summary: If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal overturns everything we thought we knew about human intelligence, and asks the question: would humans be better off as narwhals? Or some other, less brainy species? There's a good argument to be made that humans might be a less successful animal species precisely because of our amazing, complex intelligence. All our unique gifts like language, math, and science do...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 591.5 GRECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 591.5 GREFischer, Julia
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2016