mimi10v3Other animals as perceiving subjects, evolutionary experiments, and neighbors. Butterflies, chimpanzees, octopuses, ants, and sensory worlds challenge the habit of treating human cognition as the universal template.
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Stokes Butterfly Book : The Complete Guide to Butterfly Gardening, Identification, and Behavior
About the bookThis comprehensive guide from the Stokes Backyard Nature series serves as a practical manual for observing, identifying, and attracting butterflies in a home garden. It bridges the gap…
8/10Nature : AnimalsThrough a Window
About the bookJane Goodall continues her longitudinal study of the chimpanzee community at Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania, picking up the narrative where her earlier work left off. This volum…
7.5/10Nature : AnimalsOther Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
About the bookPeter Godfrey-Smith, a philosopher of science and avid scuba diver, explores the deep evolutionary roots of consciousness by focusing on the cephalopods. He argues that intelligence on…
7/10Nature : AnimalsThe Whale Warriors
About the bookPeter Heller follows Farley Mowat, the Canadian author of *Journey to the Midnight Sun*, on a final voyage to the North Pacific to observe the gray whales that Mowat had long championed…
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| Animal Senses: How Animals See, Hear, Taste, Smell and Feel (Animal Behavior) | Pamela Hickman | 1998 | 5 | Read | → |
| Coyote America | Dan Flores | 2016 | 4 | Read | → |
| Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness | Peter Goddfrey-Smith | 2016 | 7.5 | Read | → |
| Stokes Butterfly Book : The Complete Guide to Butterfly Gardening, Identification, and Behavior | Donald Stokes, Lillian Stokes, Ernest Williams | 1991 | 8 | Read | → |
| Tales from the Ant World | Edward O. Wilson | 2020 | 6 | Read | → |
| The Age of Empathy | Frans de Waal | 2009 | 6 | Read | → |
| The Sounds of Life | Karen Bakker | 2022 | — | Unread | → |
| The Whale Warriors | Peter Heller | 2007 | 7 | Read | → |
| Through a Window | Jane Goodall | 1990 | 8 | Read | → |