Elephant Sense and Sensibility

Michael Garstang

ISBN 10: 0128022175 / ISBN 13: 9780128022177

Editore: Elsevier Science Feb 2015, 2015

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Elephant Sense and Sensibility is a comprehensive treatment of the full range of elephant behavior. Beginning with chapters on evolution and the elephant's brain, this book is an integrated presentation of the elephant's capacity for memory, morality, emotion, empathy, altruism, language, intelligence, learning and teaching. Grounded primarily in scientific research, the book also draws upon anecdotal and visual evidence showing elephants thinking, acting, feeling and behaving in ways that we, as humans, recognize. This complete treatment of elephant behavior supported by the extensive literature, along with anecdotal and photographic material, provides an overview not available in any other text. 152 pp. Englisch.

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• Titolo: Elephant Sense and Sensibility
• Editore: Elsevier Science Feb 2015
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0128022175
• ISBN 13: 9780128022177
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 228 L x 153 A x 10 P (millimetri) 228 millimetri di larghezza per 153 millimetri di altezza per 10 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 261 grammi

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Elephant Sense and Sensibility is a comprehensive treatment of the full range of elephant behavior. Beginning with chapters on evolution and the elephant's brain, this book is an integrated presentation of the elephant's capacity for memory, morality, emotion, empathy, altruism, language, intelligence, learning and teaching. Grounded primarily in scientific research, the book also draws upon anecdotal and visual evidence showing elephants thinking, acting, feeling and behaving in ways that we, as humans, recognize. This complete treatment of elephant behavior supported by the extensive literature, along with anecdotal and photographic material, provides an overview not available in any other text.

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"I highly recommend this volume to students and researchers who seek to develop innovative research questions and cognitive experiments. This book is markedly contemporary because recent neuroanatomical findings ultimately call for cognitive research on elephants that, compared to other species, is in its infancy." --Quarterly Review of Biology

"Overall, this is an interesting and worthwhile read. The science presented is accessible to the non-specialist yet informative for the more expert reader and the book is full of interesting facts..." --Applied Animal Behaviour Science, Elephant Sense and Sensibility

"...an important read for conservation practitioners, not only in South Africa, for undergraduate and postgraduate students who are developing their world view, and for academics who may be set in their ways, as a means to think outside the box." --South African Journal of Science