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Parrot's Lament, The and Other True Tales of Animal Intrigue, Intelligen

Author : Eugene Linden
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101222387
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Parrot's Lament, The and Other True Tales of Animal Intrigue, Intelligen written by Eugene Linden and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000-08-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gorilla shrewdly sells back a missing key chain to the highest bidder. An orangutan picks a lock to let himself out of his zoo enclosure and two elephants adopt a tag-team strategy to keep their handlers from putting them back into theirs. In The Parrot's Lament, noted environmentalist Eugene Linden offers more than one hundred true anecdotes about animal acts of cooperation, heroism, escape—even tales of deception or manipulation of human beings. Drawing on the first-person experiences of veterinarians, field biologists, researchers, and trainers, Linden has compiled a warmly entertaining and powerfully persuasive argument for animal consciousness that, while not human, far exceeds what humans usually grant animals. Scientifically sound and emotionally compelling, The Parrot's Lament contains remarkable stories that are sure to resonate with animal lovers, turning skeptics everywhere into believers.

The Parrot's Lament

Author : Eugene Linden
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780452280687
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book The Parrot's Lament written by Eugene Linden and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering compelling evidence of animal consciousness and intelligence, an award-winning journalist presents more than one hundred true stories that demonstrate how animals experience grief, humor, compassion, deception, strategy, and more. Reprint.

Parrot's Lament

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ISBN 13 : 9781417739271
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (392 download)

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The Parrot's Lament, and Other True Tales of Animal Intrigue, Intelligence,and Ingenuity

Author : Eugene Linden
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780606296366
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (963 download)

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Download or read book The Parrot's Lament, and Other True Tales of Animal Intrigue, Intelligence,and Ingenuity written by Eugene Linden and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2000-08-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents more than one hundred true stories that demonstrate how animals experience grief, humor, compassion, deception, and strategy.

The Octopus and the Orangutan

Author : Eugene Linden
Publisher : Dutton Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Octopus and the Orangutan written by Eugene Linden and published by Dutton Adult. This book was released on 2002 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Octopus and the Orangutan, Eugene Linden takes readers on another unforgettable journey into the minds and hearts of animals. The Parrot's Lament, his acclaimed previous book, featured extraordinary true stories of animal consciousness and intelligence. Linden's latest book goes beyond our everyday encounters with animals at home and in the zoo in a wide-ranging collection of real-life anecdotes that offer further compelling evidence of their higher mental capabilities and their awareness of the needs and feelings of others. The Octopus and the Orangutanreveals extraordinary new details about animals introduced in The Parrot's Lament, and then finds intelligent behavior in surprising new places, ranging from the octopus's garden to the crow's nest. Amazing feats of stealth, deception, and larceny accompany unexpected acts of kindness and friendship. Animals show they are cagey bargainers and tough negotiators both with their human keepers and with one another. The animals themselves are our guides in this fresh look at the question of animal intelligence. From the beloved pets we think we know to the remarkable survival skills of creatures in the wild, Eugene Linden once again shares his wonder and joy at the infinite variety of animal behavior that continues to inform, amaze, and touch us all.

Animals are the Issue

Author : Linda S Katz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131795162X
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Animals are the Issue written by Linda S Katz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supply your library with the best collection of resources on animal issues! Animals are the Issue: Library Resources on Animal Issues is a guide to books, journals, and Web sites on historic and modern animal treatment. Expert librarians and scholars provide helpful resources showing what ideals and practical solutions exist in animal rights and welfare debates. With this book, students, philosophers, and politicians can find the best of written and electronic resources about the protection and ethical use of animals by humankind. Animals are the Issue stands alone as a source for locating materials on animal protection and welfare. This valuable guide will help librarians save time and money in locating diverse areas of information regarding animal consumption and exploitation. The authors have noted what they consider to be the most essential resources for library collections. This book offers references that discuss the utilization of animals by humans: as companions in sports and entertainment in religion in science and education in industry in hunting Animals Are the Issue explores how animals are seen, viewed, and used by humans. With bibliographies, annotated lists, and short commentaries by the authors on nearly every item, you’ll be able to supply your patrons with a highly effective animal rights/welfare collection.

Pleasurable Kingdom

Author : Jonathan Balcombe
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 0230552277
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Pleasurable Kingdom written by Jonathan Balcombe and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2006-05-02 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recognition of animal pain and stress, once controversial, is now acknowledged by legislation in many countries, but there is no formal recognition of animals' ability to feel pleasure. Pleasurable Kingdom is the first book for lay-readers to present new evidence that animals--like humans--enjoy themselves. It debunks the popular perception that life for most is a continuous, grim struggle for survival and the avoidance of pain. Instead it suggests that creatures from birds to baboons feel good thanks to play, sex, touch, food, anticipation, comfort, aesthetics, and more. Combining rigorous evidence, elegant argument and amusing anecdotes, leading animal behavior researcher Jonathan Balcombe proposes that the possibility of positive feelings in creatures other than humans has important ethical ramifications for both science and society.

Inside Animal Hearts and Minds

Author : Belinda Recio
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1510718958
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Inside Animal Hearts and Minds written by Belinda Recio and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Charles Darwin suggested more than a century ago, the differences between animals and humans are “of degree and not of kind.” Not long ago, ethologists denied that animals had emotions or true intelligence. Now, we know that rats laugh when tickled, magpies mourn as they cover the departed with greenery, female whales travel thousands of miles for annual reunions with their gal pals, seals navigate by the stars, bears hum when happy, and crows slide down snowy rooftops for fun. In engaging text, photographs, and infographics, Inside Animal Hearts and Minds showcases fascinating and heart-warming examples of animal emotion and cognition that will foster wonder and empathy. Learn about an orangutan who does “macramé,” monkeys that understand the concept of money, and rats that choose friendship over food. Even language, math, and logic are no longer exclusive to humans. Prairie dogs have their own complex vocabularies to describe human intruders, parrots name their chicks, sea lions appear capable of deductive thinking akin to a ten-year-old child’s, and bears, lemurs, parrots, and other animals demonstrate numerical cognition. In a world where a growing body of scientific research is closing the gap between the human and non-human, Inside Animal Hearts and Minds invites us to change the way we view animals, the world, and our place in it.

The Great Compassion

Author : Norm Phelps
Publisher : Lantern Books
ISBN 13 : 9781590560693
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book The Great Compassion written by Norm Phelps and published by Lantern Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buddhism ought to be an animal rights religion par excellence. It has long held that all life forms are sacred and considers kindness and compassion the highest virtues. Moreover, Buddhism explicitly includes animals in its moral universe. Buddhist rules of conduct--including the first precept, "Do not kill"--apply to our treatment of animals as well as to our treatment of other human beings. Consequently, we would expect Buddhism to oppose all forms of animal exploitation, and there is, in fact, wide agreement that most forms of animal exploitation are contrary to Buddhist teaching. Yet many Buddhists eat meat--although many do not--and monks, priests, and scholars sometimes defend meat-eating as consistent with Buddhist teaching. The Great Compassion studies the various strains of Buddhism and the sutras that command respect for all life. Norm Phelps, a longtime student of Buddhism and an acquaintance of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, answers the central questions of whether Buddhism demands vegetarianism and whether the Buddha ate meat. He is not afraid to examine anti-animal statements in Buddhist lore--particularly the issues of whether Buddhists in non-historically Buddhist countries need to keep or to jettison the practices of their historical homelands.

‘The Bird Who Sang the Trisagion’ of Isaac of Antioch

Author : Robert A. Kitchen
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031600770
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (316 download)

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Download or read book ‘The Bird Who Sang the Trisagion’ of Isaac of Antioch written by Robert A. Kitchen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Daisy to the Rescue

Author : Jeff Campbell
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 1936976625
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book Daisy to the Rescue written by Jeff Campbell and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who rescued who? This popular animal-shelter bumper sticker captures an enduring emotional truth: With their love and companionship, animals save our lives every day. But sometimes, to our utter amazement and everlasting gratitude, animals literally save our lives, and this heartwarming book collects over fifty real-life stories of animals rescuing people, in which their bravery and compassion have meant the difference between life and death.

Parrot

Author : Paul Carter
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1861894953
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Parrot written by Paul Carter and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2006-03-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the more nonconformist figures in the animal kingdom, the parrot is linked to humans by its ability to speak—a trait many have found unsettling, though this discomfort is offset by its gorgeous plumage, which makes it one of the most popular members of the avian family. Unlike previous studies that have treated parrots as simply a curious oddity, Paul Carter offers here in Parrot a thoughtful yet spirited consideration of the natural and cultural history of parrots, discussing parrot portraiture, the role and significance of parrots' mimicry in human culture, and parrot conservation, as well the parrot's role in literature, folklore and mythology, film, and television worldwide. Parrot takes three different approaches to the squawker: the first section, "Parrotics," examines the historical, cultural, and scientific classification of parrots; "Parroternalia," the second part, looks at the association of parrots with the different languages, ages, tastes, and dreams of society; and, finally, "Parrotology" investigates what the mimicry of parrots reveals about our own systems of communication. Humorously written and wide-ranging in scope, this volume takes readers beyond pirates and "Polly wants a cracker" to a new kind of animal history, one conscious of the critical and ironic mirror parrots hold up to human society.

The Evolution of Intelligence

Author : Robert J. Sternberg
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1135668450
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of Intelligence written by Robert J. Sternberg and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike most approaches to intelligence, which rely on psychometric testing for inspiration of confirmation, this bk investigates the nature & developmnt of intelligence from an evolutionary perspective. For cognitive scientists and experimental, cognitiv

Tuco and the Scattershot World

Author : Brian Brett
Publisher : Greystone Books
ISBN 13 : 1771640642
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (716 download)

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Download or read book Tuco and the Scattershot World written by Brian Brett and published by Greystone Books. This book was released on 2015-09-04 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed author’s memoir of life with an African grey parrot offers “a thoughtful and generous celebration of minds and bodies different from our own” (Times Literary Supplement, UK). For thirty years, Brian Brett shared his office and his life with Tuco, a remarkable parrot given to asking questions such as “Whaddya know?” and announcing “Party time!” when guests showed up at Brett’s farm. Although Brett bought Tuco on a whim, he gradually realized the enormous obligation he has to his pet, learning that the parrot is far more complex than he thought. In Tuco and the Scattershot World, Brett not only chronicles his fascinating relationship with Tuco, but uses it to explore the human tendency to “other” the world, abusing birds, landscapes, and each other. Brett sees in Tuco’s otherness a mirror of his own experience contending with Kallman syndrome, a rare genetic condition that made him the target of bullies—and nurtured his affinity for winged creatures. Brett’s meditative digressions touch on topics ranging from the history of birds and dinosaurs to our concepts of knowledge, language, and intelligence—and include commentary from Tuco himself. By turns provocative and deeply moving, Tuco and the Scattershot World “is not a straight memoir—it’s something much more wondrously weird . . . a view of the human predicament that is hilarious, sobering and profound” (Globe & Mail, UK).

Wild Man from Borneo

Author : Robert Cribb
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824840267
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Wild Man from Borneo written by Robert Cribb and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2014-01-31 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wild Man from Borneo offers the first comprehensive history of the human-orangutan encounter. Arguably the most humanlike of all the great apes, particularly in intelligence and behavior, the orangutan has been cherished, used, and abused ever since it was first brought to the attention of Europeans in the seventeenth century. The red ape has engaged the interest of scientists, philosophers, artists, and the public at large in a bewildering array of guises that have by no means been exclusively zoological or ecological. One reason for such a long-term engagement with a being found only on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra is that, like its fellow great apes, the orangutan stands on that most uncomfortable dividing line between human and animal, existing, for us, on what has been called “the dangerous edge of the garden of nature.” Beginning with the scientific discovery of the red ape more than three hundred years ago, this work goes on to examine the ways in which its human attributes have been both recognized and denied in science, philosophy, travel literature, popular science, literature, theatre, museums, and film. The authors offer a provocative analysis of the origin of the name “orangutan,” trace how the ape has been recruited to arguments on topics as diverse as slavery and rape, and outline the history of attempts to save the animal from extinction. Today, while human populations increase exponentially, that of the orangutan is in dangerous decline. The remaining “wild men of Borneo” are under increasing threat from mining interests, logging, human population expansion, and the widespread destruction of forests. The authors hope that this history will, by adding to our knowledge of this fascinating being, assist in some small way in their preservation.

The Dominion of Love

Author : Norm Phelps
Publisher : Lantern Books
ISBN 13 : 9781590560099
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Dominion of Love written by Norm Phelps and published by Lantern Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many commentators and users of the Bible have, over the centuries and up to the present day, used the Bible to argue that animals have no rights, that they were put on this earth for our use, and that we have no obligations to them. In his cogent, honest, and fully researched and referenced work, The Dominion of Love, Norm Phelps attempts to encourage all who revere the Bible as holy scripture to open their hearts to the suffering that we inflict upon our nonhuman neighbors. He shows that the right of animals not to be imprisoned, harmed, and killed for our benefit flows naturally from the Bible's message of love and compassion and argues that this is the message of the Bible's most important passages dealing with our relationship to animals. He further responds to the defenses of animal exploitation that are often made based on the Bible. Beautifully written, The Dominion of Love is an essential addition to a growing body of literature that argues for a compassionate and non-exploitative reading of Holy Scripture.

The Winds of Change

Author : Eugene Linden
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684863529
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book The Winds of Change written by Eugene Linden and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are we better prepared than our ancestors were to deal with climate change? Explaining fast-changing science, Linden suggests that man must learn from the past to avoid a coming catastrophe. Illustrations throughout.