Animal Intelligence: From Individual to Social Cognition

by Zhanna Reznikova

From ants to whales, the lives of animals are filled with challenges that demand minute-by-minute decisions: to fight or flee, dominate or obey, take-off, share, eat, spit out or court. Learning develops adaptive tuning to a changeable environment, while intelligence helps animals use their learned experiences in new situations. Using examples from field to laboratory, Animal Intelligence pools resources from ethology, behavioural ecology and comparative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521532027
• ISBN13: 9780521532020
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.4" x 9.7"