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.