Domestic chickens are members of an order, Aves, which has been the focus of a revolution
in our understanding of neuroanatomical, cognitive, and social complexity. At least some …

Capuchin monkey behavior has been the focus of increasing numbers of captive and field
studies in recent years, clarifying behavioral and ecological differences between the two …

A New York Times bestseller:" A passionate and convincing case for the sophistication of
nonhuman minds."—Alison Gopnik, The Atlantic Hailed as a classic, Are We Smart Enough …

In this thought-provoking book, the acclaimed author of Our Inner Ape examines how
empathy comes naturally to a great variety of animals, including humans. Are we our …

When published in 1980, Benjamin B. Beck's Animal Tool Behavior was the first volume to
catalog and analyze the complete literature on tool use and manufacture in non-human …

From the New York Times bestselling author of Mama's Last Hug and Are We Smart Enough
to Know How Smart Animals Are?, a provocative argument that apes have created their own …

Decades-long field research has flowered into integrative studies that, together with
experimental evidence for the requisite social learning capacities, have indicated a reliance …

This comprehensive introductory text integrates evolutionary, ecological, and demographic
perspectives with new results from field studies and contemporary noninvasive molecular …

Despite numerous attempts to define animal tool use over the past four decades, the
definition remains elusive and the behaviour classification somewhat subjective. Here, we …

The zone of latent solutions (ZLS) hypothesis provides an alternative approach to explaining
cultural patterns in primates and many other animals. According to the ZLS hypothesis, non …