Castaldo, 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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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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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
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599 FISPepperberg, Irene M. (Irene Maxine)
Summary: This story of Alex, a famous African Grey parrot, documents his thirty-year relationship with his trainer and the ways in which his life has changed scientific understanding about language and thought
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 0000
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Summary: "What is it like to be a dog? A bat? Or a dolphin? To find out, neuroscientist Gregory Berns and his team began with a radical step: they taught dogs to go into an MRI scanner-completely awake. They discovered what makes dogs individuals with varying capacities for self-control, different value systems, and a complex understanding of human speech. And dogs were just the beginning. In What It's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 590 BERMorell, 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 MORGregg, 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 GREBuchmann, Stephen L.
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Island Press 2023