Animal Intelligence and Cognition

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Clever As a Fox : Animal Intelligence And What It Can Teach Us About Ourselves
Clever As a Fox : Animal Intelligence And What It Can Teach Us About Ourselves 3.90 avg rating — 40 ratings
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What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins
What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins 4.21 avg rating — 2,768 ratings
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Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence—and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process
Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence—and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process 4.10 avg rating — 10,017 ratings
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Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? 3.97 avg rating — 16,185 ratings
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The Genius of Dogs: How Dogs Are Smarter than You Think
The Genius of Dogs: How Dogs Are Smarter than You Think 3.98 avg rating — 3,452 ratings
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Mind of the Raven
Mind of the Raven 4.01 avg rating — 4,112 ratings
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A Primate's Memoir : Love, Death and Baboons in East Africa
A Primate's Memoir : Love, Death and Baboons in East Africa 4.39 avg rating — 8,661 ratings
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Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel
Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel 4.41 avg rating — 4,490 ratings
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Clever Hans: The True Story of the Counting, Adding, and Time-Telling Horse
Clever Hans: The True Story of the Counting, Adding, and Time-Telling Horse 4.26 avg rating — 152 ratings
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Killers In Eden: The True Story of Killer Whales and their Remarkable Partnership with the Whalers of Twofold Bay
Killers In Eden: The True Story of Killer Whales and their Remarkable Partnership with the Whalers of Twofold Bay 4.02 avg rating — 53 ratings
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The Hidden Life of Dogs
The Hidden Life of Dogs 3.67 avg rating — 2,585 ratings
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Not So Different: Finding Human Nature in Animals
Not So Different: Finding Human Nature in Animals 4.23 avg rating — 91 ratings
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Bonobo Handshake: A Memoir of Love and Adventure in the Congo
Bonobo Handshake: A Memoir of Love and Adventure in the Congo 4.01 avg rating — 2,027 ratings
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Other Minds
Other Minds 3.88 avg rating — 26,734 ratings
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What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds 4.15 avg rating — 6,302 ratings
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Daisy to the Rescue: True Stories of Daring Dogs, Paramedic Parrots, and Other Animal Heroes
Daisy to the Rescue: True Stories of Daring Dogs, Paramedic Parrots, and Other Animal Heroes 4.08 avg rating — 115 ratings
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Stories Rabbits Tell: A Natural and Cultural History of a Misunderstood Creature
Stories Rabbits Tell: A Natural and Cultural History of a Misunderstood Creature 4.29 avg rating — 220 ratings
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Rabenschwarze Intelligenz. Was wir von Krähen lernen können
Rabenschwarze Intelligenz. Was wir von Krähen lernen können 3.83 avg rating — 112 ratings
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How Dogs Love Us: A Neuroscientist and His Adopted Dog Decode the Canine Brain
How Dogs Love Us: A Neuroscientist and His Adopted Dog Decode the Canine Brain 3.97 avg rating — 7,530 ratings
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The Biology of Wonder: Aliveness, Feeling and the Metamorphosis of Science
The Biology of Wonder: Aliveness, Feeling and the Metamorphosis of Science 4.08 avg rating — 100 ratings
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Beasts of Sonara
Beasts of Sonara 4.28 avg rating — 43 ratings
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A Brain for Numbers: The Biology of the Number Instinct
A Brain for Numbers: The Biology of the Number Instinct 3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think
Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think 3.68 avg rating — 208 ratings
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The Horse's Mind
The Horse's Mind
by: Lucy Rees
4.33 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Foxes Unearthed: A Story of Love and Loathing in Modern Britain
Foxes Unearthed: A Story of Love and Loathing in Modern Britain 3.91 avg rating — 568 ratings
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Birdology: Adventures with a Pack of Hens, a Peck of Pigeons, Cantankerous Crows, Fierce Falcons, Hip Hop Parrots, Baby Hummingbirds, and One Murderously Big Living Dinosaur
Birdology: Adventures with a Pack of Hens, a Peck of Pigeons, Cantankerous Crows, Fierce Falcons, Hip Hop Parrots, Baby Hummingbirds, and One Murderously Big Living Dinosaur 4.17 avg rating — 1,697 ratings
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Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe
Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe 4.29 avg rating — 3,223 ratings
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Bird Brains: The Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Magpies, and Jays
Bird Brains: The Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Magpies, and Jays 4.12 avg rating — 937 ratings
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How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution
How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution 4.22 avg rating — 1,785 ratings
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The Parrot's Lament, and Other True Tales of Animal Intrigue, Intelligence, and Ingenuity
The Parrot's Lament, and Other True Tales of Animal Intrigue, Intelligence, and Ingenuity 3.91 avg rating — 486 ratings
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On the Wing: To the Edge of the Earth with the Peregrine Falcon
On the Wing: To the Edge of the Earth with the Peregrine Falcon 3.73 avg rating — 223 ratings
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The Inner Life of Cats: The Science and Secrets of Our Mysterious Feline Companions
The Inner Life of Cats: The Science and Secrets of Our Mysterious Feline Companions 3.73 avg rating — 928 ratings
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What the Dog Knows: The Science and Wonder of Working Dogs
What the Dog Knows: The Science and Wonder of Working Dogs 3.98 avg rating — 1,841 ratings
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Octopus and Squid: The Soft Intelligence
Octopus and Squid: The Soft Intelligence 4.11 avg rating — 130 ratings
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Our Dogs, Ourselves
Our Dogs, Ourselves 3.52 avg rating — 1,036 ratings
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Beautiful Minds: The Parallel Lives of Great Apes and Dolphins
Beautiful Minds: The Parallel Lives of Great Apes and Dolphins 3.77 avg rating — 158 ratings
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Animal Wise: How We Know Animals Think and Feel
Animal Wise: How We Know Animals Think and Feel 4.13 avg rating — 2,472 ratings
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Secrets of the Savanna: Twenty-three Years in the African Wilderness Unraveling the Mysteries of Elephants and People
Secrets of the Savanna: Twenty-three Years in the African Wilderness Unraveling the Mysteries of Elephants and People 4.13 avg rating — 1,149 ratings
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How Dogs Work
How Dogs Work 3.77 avg rating — 159 ratings
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Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird
Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird 4.07 avg rating — 1,622 ratings
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Being a Dog
Being a Dog 3.75 avg rating — 1,695 ratings
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Animal Bodies, Human Minds: Ape, Dolphin, and Parrot Language Skills
Animal Bodies, Human Minds: Ape, Dolphin, and Parrot Language Skills 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
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How to Think Like a Cat
How to Think Like a Cat 3.45 avg rating — 5,553 ratings
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How Monkeys See the World: Inside the Mind of Another Species
How Monkeys See the World: Inside the Mind of Another Species 4.04 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Tool Use in Animals: Cognition and Ecology
Tool Use in Animals: Cognition and Ecology 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum
The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum 4.11 avg rating — 10,608 ratings
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The Octopus and the Orangutan: New Tales of Animal Intrigue, Intelligence, and Ingenuity
The Octopus and the Orangutan: New Tales of Animal Intrigue, Intelligence, and Ingenuity 3.73 avg rating — 358 ratings
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Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism
Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism 4.10 avg rating — 16,787 ratings
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Animal Tool Behavior: The Use and Manufacture of Tools by Animals
Animal Tool Behavior: The Use and Manufacture of Tools by Animals 4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Inside the Animal Mind: A Groundbreaking Exploration of Animal Intelligence
Inside the Animal Mind: A Groundbreaking Exploration of Animal Intelligence 3.70 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Animal Architects: Building and the Evolution of Intelligence
Animal Architects: Building and the Evolution of Intelligence 3.92 avg rating — 88 ratings
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Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know
Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know 3.63 avg rating — 17,643 ratings
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Primate Psychology
Primate Psychology 4.05 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Dolphin in the Mirror: Exploring Dolphin Minds and Saving Dolphin Lives
The Dolphin in the Mirror: Exploring Dolphin Minds and Saving Dolphin Lives 4.13 avg rating — 401 ratings
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The Minds of Birds (Louise Lindsey Merrick Natural Environment Series)
The Minds of Birds (Louise Lindsey Merrick Natural Environment Series) 4.57 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans
Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans 3.95 avg rating — 2,003 ratings
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The Alex Studies: Cognitive and Communicative Abilities of Grey Parrots
The Alex Studies: Cognitive and Communicative Abilities of Grey Parrots 4.32 avg rating — 180 ratings
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Manipulative Monkeys: The Capuchins of Lomas Barbudal
Manipulative Monkeys: The Capuchins of Lomas Barbudal really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind
Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind 4.13 avg rating — 226 ratings
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Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human
Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human 3.79 avg rating — 774 ratings
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What a Bee Knows: Exploring the Thoughts, Memories, and Personalities of Bees
What a Bee Knows: Exploring the Thoughts, Memories, and Personalities of Bees 4.11 avg rating — 161 ratings
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The Mind of a Bee
The Mind of a Bee 4.11 avg rating — 969 ratings