num_pages: 275
description: Hailed as a classic Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? explores the oddities and complexities of animal cognitionin crows dolphins parrots sheep wasps bats chimpanzees and bonobosto reveal how smart animals really are and how weve 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 Waals landmark work will convince you to rethink everything you thought you knew about animaland humanintelligence.
language: English
title: Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company