With astonishing stories of animal cognition, Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? challenges everything you thought you knew about animal - and human - intelligence. He overturns the view of animals as stimulus-response beings and opens our eyes to their complex and intricate minds. Candler Professor Emeritus of Primate Behavior at Emory University and the former director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center. Based on research on a range of animals, including crows, dolphins, parrots, sheep, wasps, bats, whales, and, of course, chimpanzees and bonobos, Frans de Waal explores the scope and depth of animal intelligence, revealing how we have grossly underestimated non-human brains. Frans de Waal, author of Mama's Last Hug, is C.

Take Ayumu, the young male chimpanzee at Kyoto University who demonstrates his species' exceptional photographic memory. Professor Frans de Waal: What We Can Learn from Animals Welcome to the three Pufendorf lectures 22-24 May 15.15-17 Venue: LUX main lecture hall (room. Fascinating, entertaining, and deeply informed, de Waal’s landmark work will convince you to rethink everything you thought you knew about animaland humanintelligence. As De Waal explains in a series of engaging accounts, language, self-recognition, tool making, empathy, co-operative behaviour, mental time-travel, culture and many other traits and abilities. Take the way octopuses use coconut shells as tools, or how elephants can classify humans by age, gender, and language. But in recent decades, claims of human superiority have been eroded by a revolution in the study of animal cognition. What separates your mind from the mind of an animal? Maybe you think it's your ability to design tools, your sense of self, or your grasp of past and future - all traits that have helped us define ourselves as the pre-eminent species on Earth.

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