Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

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.

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• The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates
• Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel
• The Emotional Lives of Animals: A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy _ and Why They Matter
• The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society
• When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals
• The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
• In the Company of Bears: What Black Bears Have Taught Me about Intelligence and Intuition
• What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins
• Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are