The parrot's lament : and other true tales of animal intrigue, intelligence, and ingenuity

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The parrot's lament : and other true tales of animal intrigue, intelligence, and ingenuity

Eugene Linden

(A Plume book)

Plume, 2000, c1999

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-193) and index

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内容説明

A gorilla shrewdly sells back a missing key chain to the highest bidder. An orangutan picks a lock to let himself out of his zoo enclosure and two elephants adopt a tag-team strategy to keep their handlers from putting them back into theirs. In The Parrot's Lament, noted environmentalist Eugene Linden offers more than one hundred true anecdotes about animal acts of cooperation, heroism, escape-even tales of deception or manipulation of human beings. Drawing on the first-person experiences of veterinarians, field biologists, researchers, and trainers, Linden has compiled a warmly entertaining and powerfully persuasive argument for animal consciousness that, while not human, far exceeds what humans usually grant animals. Scientifically sound and emotionally compelling, The Parrot's Lament contains remarkable stories that are sure to resonate with animal lovers, turning skeptics everywhere into believers.

目次

Preface Introduction The Wolf Who Made Friends with a Goat Games and Humor "She Didn't Know Human, and He Didn't Know Gorilla . . . " Trade and Barter Ah, Treachery Deception I Think that You Think that I Think that You Think . . . Mind Reading and Mental Chess The Pig Who Ran to Work Cooperation in Work, Conflict, and Healing Orangutan Engineers and Nut-Cracking Chimps Tools and Intelligence Escape from Topeka . . . And Omaha, and Brownsville, and . . . Love! Valor! Compassion! Empathy and Heroism What Do They Make of Us? A Place Where Humans Are the Novelty Selected Bibliography Index

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