Book
Readings in animal cognition / edited by Marc Bekoff, Dale Jamieson.
Record details
- ISBN: 026252208X (pbk. : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780262522083 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Physical Description: xv, 379 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
- Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1996.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "A Bradford book." Essays taken from Interpretation and exploration in the study of animal behavior, originally published in 1990 by Westview Press. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | The myth of anthropomorphism / John Andrew Fisher -- Gendered knowledge? Examining influences on scientific and ethological inquiries / Lori Gruen -- Interpretive cognitive ethology / Hugh Wilder -- Concept attribution in nonhuman animals: theoretical and methodological problems in ascribing complex mental processes / Colin Allen and Marc Hauser -- On aims and methods of cognitive ethology / Dale Jamieson and Marc Bekoff -- Aspects of the cognitive ethology of an injury-feigning bird, the piping plover / Carolyn A. Ristau -- Tradition in animals: field observations and laboratory analyses / Bennett G. Galef, Jr. -- The study of adaptation / Randy Thornhill The units of behavior in evolutionary explanations / Sandra D. Mitchell -- Levels of analysis and the functional significance of helping behavior / Walter D. Koenig and Ronald L. Mumme -- The ubiquitous concept of recognition with special reference to kin / Andrew R. Blaustein and Richard H. Porter -- Do animals choose habitats? / Michael L. Rosenzweig -- The infuence of models on the interpretation of vigilance / Steven L. Lima -- Is there an evolutionary biology of play? / Alexander Rosenberg -- Intentionality, social play, and definition / Colin Allen and Marc Bekoff -- Communication and expectations: a social process and the cognitive operation it depends upon and influences / W. John Smith Animal communication and social evolution / Michael Philips and Steven N. Austad -- Animal language: methodological and interpretive issues / Sue Savage-Rumbaugh and Karen E. Brakke -- Knowledge acquisition and asymmetry between language comprehension and production: dolphins and apes as general models for animals / Louis M. Herman and Palmer Morrel-Samuels -- Evolution and psychological unity / Roger Crisp -- The mental lives of nonhuman animals / John Dupré -- Inside the mind of a monkey / Robert Seyfarth and Dorothy Cheney -- A bat without qualities? / Kathleen A. Akins -- Afterword: ethics and the study of animal cognition / Dale Jamieson and Marc Bekoff. |
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| Subject: | Cognition in animals. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lummi Library | QL 785 .R43 1996 | 285386 | Stacks | Reshelving | - |