Cognitive ethology : the minds of other animals : essays in honor of Donald R. Griffin

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Cognitive ethology : the minds of other animals : essays in honor of Donald R. Griffin / edited by Carolyn A. Ristau.

Summary:

This collection of essays was written by former students, associates, admirers, critics and friends of Donald R. Griffin -- the creator of cognitive ethology. Stimulated by his work, this volume presents ideas and experiments in the field of cognitive ethology -- the exploration of the mental experiences of animals as they behave in their natural environment during the course of their normal lives. Cognitive Ethology discusses the possibility that animals may have abilities to experience, communicate, reason, and plan beyond those usually ascribed to them in a "black box" or "stimulus-response" interpretation of their behavior. Contributions from scientists who have been associated with or influenced by Griffin offer a lively array of views, some disparate from one another and some especially selected to present approaches contrary to his.

Record details

ISBN: 0805802517 (case)
ISBN: 9780805802511 (case)
ISBN: 0805802525 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780805802528 (pbk.)
Physical Description: xx, 332 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Hillsdale, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 1991.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note:: Progress toward a cognitive ethology / Donald R. Griffin -- From folk psychology to cognitive ethology / Colin G. Beer -- How is cognitive ethology possible? / Jonathan Bennett -- Cognitive ethology and critical anthropomorphism: a snake with two heads and hog-nose snakes that play dead / Gordon M. Burghardt -- Aspects of the cognitive ethology of an injury-feigning bird, the piping plover / Carolyn A. Ristau -- Truth and deception in animal communication / Dorothy L. Cheney and Robert M. Seyfarth -- A communicative approach to animal cognition : a study of conceptual abilities of an African grey parrot / Irene M. Pepperberg -- Do animals have this option of withholding signals when communication is inappropriate? The audience effect / Peter Marler, Stephen Karakashian, and Marcel Gyger -- Animal communication and the study of cognition / W. John Smith -- Conscious chimpanzees : A review of recent literature / Alison Jolly -- Human psychology and the minds of other animals / George F. Michel -- Integrating cognitive ethology with cognitive psychology / Sonja I. Yoerg and Alan C. Kamil -- Cognitive ethology : an overview / Carolyn A. Ristau.