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Recio, Belinda, 1961- author.

Inside animal hearts and minds : bears that count, goats that surf, and other true stories of animal intelligence and emotion / Belinda Recio ; foreword by Jonathan Balcombe.

New York, NY : Skyhorse Publishing, [2017]

©2017

xv, 159 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm

In engaging text, photographs, and infographics, Inside Animal Hearts and Minds showcases fascinating and heart-warming examples of animal emotion and cognition that will foster wonder and empathy. Learn about an orangutan who does "macramé," monkeys that understand the concept of money, and rats that choose friendship over food. Even language, math, and logic are no longer exclusive to humans. Prairie dogs have their own complex vocabularies to describe human intruders, parrots name their chicks, sea lions appear capable of deductive thinking akin to a ten-year-old child's, and bears, lemurs, parrots, and other animals demonstrate numerical cognition.

Animal intelligence.

Animal behavior.

writer of foreword. Balcombe, Jonathan, 1959-

Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1. Heart -- The joke's on us : Laughter, humor, and mischief -- A generous nature : Reciprocity and cooperation -- Fair and square : Playing by the rules -- Stand by me : Friendship -- For the fun of it : Play and imagination -- Random acts of kindness : Empathy and altruism -- A sense of the sacred : Death and spirituality -- pt. 2. Mind -- To know thyself : Awareness and identity -- If we could talk to the animals : Language -- Count them in : Numerical cognition -- Technology across the kingdom : Tool use -- Finding their way : Spatial intelligence -- For art's sake : Creativity and aesthetics -- Re-imagining IQ : Thinking outside the human brain.

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