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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Second nature	Jonathan Balcombe	Jonathan Balcombe, animal behaviorist and author of the critically acclaimed "Pleasurable Kingdom," draws on the latest research, observational studies and personal anecdotes to reveal the full gamut…	OL13847446W
Reaching the Animal Mind	Karen Pryor	After thirty years of training creatures both tame and wild, Karen Pryor, pioneer in the field of no-punishment animal training, presents what she knows about teaching animals and what they in turn h…	OL15100537W
Therapy horses	Katie Marsico	"Provides comprehensive information on how horses provide help to people with injuries and illnesses through therapy"--	OL16142193W
The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore	Benjamin Hale	Publisher's Summary: Bruno Littlemore is quite unlike any chimpanzee in the world. Precocious, self-conscious and preternaturally gifted, young Bruno, born and raised in a habitat at the local zoo, f…	OL17357529W
The Inner Life of Animals	Peter Wohlleben	356 sider :	OL17785461W
How smart are animals?	Dorothy Hinshaw Patent	Discusses recent research on levels of intelligence in both wild and domestic animals.	OL18165557W
The Pawprints of History	Stanley Coren	Over the course of three decades, noted psychologist and renowned dog expert Stanley Coren has amassed a truly remarkable collection of stories, some of which he has shared with characteristic charm …	OL1912680W
Signs of the apes, songs of the whales	George Harrar	Describes experiments in which apes and dolphins have been taught aspects of human language and discusses the contributions of these experiments to our understanding of animal intelligence.	OL1939596W
Voices in the ocean	Susan Casey	Through dolphins, we can see the best and worst of mankind. On average, seventy four dolphins wash up on the Gulf of Mexico's north shore every year. In the first half of 2012, there were eight hundr…	OL20005626W
The genius of birds	Jennifer Ackerman,Gemma Deza Guil,Illus. by John Burgoyne,Illus. by John Burgoyne,Margaret Strom	"Birds are astonishingly intelligent creatures. In fact, according to revolutionary new research, some birds rival primates and even humans in their remarkable forms of intelligence. Like humans, man…	OL20028498W
The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore	Benjamin Hale	Bruno Littlemore, the world's first chimpanzee with the ability to speak, tells the story of primatologist Lydia Littlemore's efforts to educate him; his untimely outbursts, which ultimately cost Lyd…	OL20092964W
Test your cat's IQ	E. M. Bard	"Does your cat come when you call, make sounds upon request, play fetch, or open doors? Thousands of cat owners may swear that their felines are, in fact, too smart to perform on command, but if you …	OL20904142W
Test Your Dog	Rachel Federman	Is your dog king-of-the-hill ... or run of the mill? Does your dog respond to hand gestures? How about facial signals? Can he perform tricks both inside and outside? Now you can find out just how sma…	OL21505688W
Test your cat	Simon Holland	Assess your cat's genius in a series of fun and easy tests and activities.	OL21769505W
Animal Rationality	Anselm Oelze	In Animal Rationality: Later Medieval Theories 1250-1350, Anselm Oelze offers the first comprehensive and systematic exploration of theories of animal rationality in the later Middle Ages. Readership…	OL23498863W
My Chimp Friday	Hester Mundis	When an old friend of her father's drops off an unusually intelligent chimpanzee at their apartment in the middle of the night with strict orders to keep the chimp a secret, twelve-year-old Rachel wa…	OL4650640W
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh	Robert C. O'Brien,Zena Bernstein	Mrs. Frisby, a widowed mouse with four small children, is faced with a terrible problem. She must move her family to their summer quarters immediately, or face almost certain death. But her youngest …	OL5092623W
The education of Koko	Francine Patterson	A personal, scientific account of the ground-breaking Project Koko discusses Patterson's controversial experimental program of teaching sign language to an ape.	OL5268012W
Meeting dolphins	Kathleen Dudzinski	The author describes her work studying dolphin communication and her invention of a listening device that allows researchers to tell which of a group of dolphins is vocalizing underwater	OL8360219W
Original Intelligence	David Premack,Ann Premack	"About six million years ago, the common population shared by chimpanzees and humans diverged into separate groups, one becoming chimpanzee, the other Australopithecus, the first link in our long hum…	OL9288053W