What Do Animals Think And Feel?

Book Title: What Do Animals Think And Feel /P
ISBN: 9781788544511
By Author(s):KARSTEN BRENSING
By Publisher:HEAD OF ZEUS
Format:PB

InWhat Do Animals Think and Feel?, the biologist Karsten Brensing has something astonishing to tell us about the animal kingdom: namely that animals, by any reasonable assessment, have developed the sophisticated systems of social organization and behaviour that human beings call ‘culture’.

Dolphinscall one another by name and orcas inhabit a culture that is over 700,000 years old.Chimpanzeeswage strategic warfare, while bonobos delight in dirty talk.Ravensenjoy snowboarding on snow-covered roofs, and snails like to spin on hamster exercise wheels.Humped-back whalesfollow the dictates of fashion and rats are dedicated party animals.Antsrecognize themselves in mirrors and spruce themselves up before they return home.Ducklingscan pass complicated tests in abstract thinking.Dogspunish disloyalty, though they are also capable of forgiveness if you apologize to them.

Brensing draws on the latest scientific findings as well as his own experience working with animals, to reveal a world of behavioural and cognitive sophistication that is remarkably similar to our own.