Books like Minding animals by Marc Bekoff

Jennifer Ackerman uncovers how birds, with brains packed with neurons, rival primates and humans in intelligence, revealing the evolutionary roots of their remarkable cognitive abilities.

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Temple Grandin explains the core emotional needs of animals—dogs, cats, horses, farm and zoo species—and how to meet them using the latest research and her own experience.

Based on Marc Bekoff’s years of research on animal social communication, this nonfiction work reveals that non‑human animals experience a broad range of emotions—joy, empathy, grief, embarrassment, anger, love—and urges readers to rethink how we view and treat them.

"In Animal Minds, Donald R. Griffin takes us on a guided tour of the recent explosion of scientific research on animal mentality. Are animals consciously aware of anything, or are they merely living machines, incapable of conscious thoughts or emotional feelings? How can we tell? Such questions have long fascinated Griffin, who has been a pioneer of research in animal cognition for decades, and is recognized as one of the leading behavioral ecologists of the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.

"Weaving decades of field observations with exciting new discoveries about the brain, Carl Safina's landmark book offers an intimate view of animal behavior to challenge the fixed boundary between humans and nonhuman animals. In Beyond Words, readers travel to Amboseli National Park in the threatened landscape of Kenya and witness struggling elephant families work out how to survive poaching and drought, then to Yellowstone National Park to observe wolves sort out the aftermath of one pack's personal tragedy, and finally plunge into the astonishingly peaceful society of killer whales living in the crystalline waters of the Pacific Northwest. Beyond Words brings forth powerful and illuminating insight into the unique personalities of animals through extraordinary stories of animal joy, grief, jealousy, anger, and love. The similarity between human and nonhuman consciousness, self-awareness, and empathy calls us to re-evaluate how we interact with animals" --