What It's Like to Be a Dog: And Other Adventures in Animal Neuroscience

"Dog lovers and neuroscientists should both read this important book." --Dr. Temple Grandin
What is it like to be a dog? A bat? Or a dolphin? To find out, neuroscientist and bestselling author Gregory Berns and his team did something nobody had ever attempted: they trained dogs to go into an MRI scanner--completely awake--so they could figure out what they think and feel. And dogs were just the beginning. In What It's Like to Be a Dog, Berns takes us into the minds of wild animals: sea lions who can learn to dance, dolphins who can see with sound, and even the now extinct Tasmanian tiger. Berns's latest scientific breakthroughs prove definitively that animals have feelings very much like we do--a revelation that forces us to reconsider how we think about and treat animals. Written with insight, empathy, and humor, What It's Like to Be a Dog is the new manifesto for animal liberation of the twenty-first century.

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• The Animals Among Us: How Pets Make Us Human
• Being a Dog: Following the Dog Into a World of Smell
• Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know
• How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution
• Numbers and the Making of Us: Counting and the Course of Human Cultures
• Magnitude: The Scale of the Universe
• Canine Confidential: Why Dogs Do What They Do
• The Dog: A Natural History