Inside The Animal Mind

A New Understanding of How They Think, Feel & Communicate

Inside The Animal Mind
Pamela Weintraub
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Hardback
h231 x 238mm - 224pg
18 May 2021 US
International import eta 7-19 days
9781951274610
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Elephants can count. Dogs read our expressions. Cows have personality. Fish feel pain. What do animals know and feel? Are they creative, can they actually make art? Do they grieve or have agency - the ability to make decisions, intentionally manipulate other creatures (even us) or love? Animals have extraordinary abilities. Their feelings are much like ours, and some of their cognitive skills equal our own. Inside the Animal Mind unpacks their inner lives and their relationship to us. Animal consciousness has long been fascinating - but difficult to penetrate. Today, that is changing, and fast. Researchers say that each creature has evolved a suitable intelligence and emotional life for it' s own role in the world: Dogs have minds that race though time on the fast track, in line with their quick metabolisms. Cats have a detailed language of meows to communicate specifically with humans. The octopus, with eight interacting arms, has a wildly complex brain. Readers will learn about how d
Pamela Weintraub is a veteran journalist specializing in psychology, life sciences, and culture. She is former editor-in-chief of OMNI, executive editor of Discover, and currently the psychology and health editor of Aeon. She is author or co-author of 16 books, including the award-winning Cure Unknown: Inside the Lyme Epidemic. For the last two years, much of her work' s focus has been on covering animal psychology and the animal mind.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781951274610
Published: 18 May 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: Centennial Books
Publisher: Centennial Books
Format: Hardback
Height: 231mm
Width: 238mm
Pages: 224

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