The Cognitive Animal - by Marc Bekoff & Colin Allen & Gordon M Burghardt (Paperback)

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About the Book An interdisciplinary anthology of essays on animal cognition. Book Synopsis The fifty-seven original essays in this book provide a comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary field of animal cognition. The contributors include cognitive ethologists, behavioral ecologists, experimental and developmental psychologists, behaviorists, philosophers, neuroscientists, computer scientists and modelers, field biologists, and others. The diversity of approaches is both philosophical and methodological, with contributors demonstrating various degrees of acceptance or disdain for such terms as "consciousness" and varying degrees of concern for laboratory experimentation versus natura…