Frans De Waal

From world-renowned biologist and primatologist Frans de Waal, a groundbreaking work on animal intelligence destined to become a classic.

Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

Since our experiences are so unlike like a lions, we would be unable to understand him. 

Iris Adi

If a lion could speak, we could not understand him. 

Frans de Waal

"People often assume a cognitive ladder, from lower to higher forms, with our own intelligence at the top. But what if it is more like a bush, with cognition taking different forms that are often incomparable to ours? Would you presume yourself dumber than a squirrel because you're less adept at recalling the locations of hundreds of buried acorns? Or would you judge your perception of your surroundings as more sophisticated than that of a echolocating bat? De Waal reviews the rise and fall of the mechanistic view of animals and opens our minds to the idea that animal minds are far more intricate and complex than we have assumed"--Dust jacket flap.

Marie Rogowski

Scientifically well written and very informative. Without former in depth knowledge on this particular field, i now believe to have a good overview over the most relevant aspects of it. But its looong...

Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

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