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# The Cognitive Animal: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives on Animal Cognition

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desertcart.com: The Cognitive Animal: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives on Animal Cognition: 9780262523226: Marc Bekoff, Colin Allen, Gordon Burghardt: Books

Review: Occasionally Interesting - This book is a large collection of short papers, somewhat comparable in style to what you would get in a peer-reviewed journal. I found many of them dull, but a few were good enough to make the book worth buying. Slobodchikoff's paper on prairie dog speech is what attracted me to the book; it's interesting but doesn't say enough to provide a convincing answer to my questions about how sophisticated their grammar is. Several of the papers provide nice anecdotes of sophisticated behavior where I didn't expect it (e.g. apparently detailed planning by a spider), but I sometimes wonder to what extent there's a selection bias that causes complex behavior to be overemphasized in reports of this nature, since they're more interesting to read than reports of animals failing to exhibit smart behavior.
Review: Conceptual dynamite breaking the logjam of prejudices against research on animal cognition. - At the time this compendium of essays was published, animal cognition was still sufficiently controversial that the authors and editors focused on breadth of coverage rather than depth. Their journal papers provide plenty of depth. This was like the sharp end of a spear breaking through a brick wall of conventional thinking that tend to regard "animal cognition" as an oxymoron. Too many animal psychologists were still trapped in the Skinner mindset of stimulus response association learning. This book removed all doubt about whether cognition could be studied scientifically in the field and in laboratories. I still re-read it periodically as the best available overview of the field's conceptual framework, despite it being 2 decades old.

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| Specification | Value |
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| Best Sellers Rank | #2,317,126 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #385 in Popular Experimental Psychology #2,459 in Medical Cognitive Psychology #3,676 in Cognitive Psychology (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.3 out of 5 stars 10 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Occasionally Interesting
*by P***Y on January 26, 2007*

This book is a large collection of short papers, somewhat comparable in style to what you would get in a peer-reviewed journal. I found many of them dull, but a few were good enough to make the book worth buying. Slobodchikoff's paper on prairie dog speech is what attracted me to the book; it's interesting but doesn't say enough to provide a convincing answer to my questions about how sophisticated their grammar is. Several of the papers provide nice anecdotes of sophisticated behavior where I didn't expect it (e.g. apparently detailed planning by a spider), but I sometimes wonder to what extent there's a selection bias that causes complex behavior to be overemphasized in reports of this nature, since they're more interesting to read than reports of animals failing to exhibit smart behavior.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Conceptual dynamite breaking the logjam of prejudices against research on animal cognition.
*by S***M on September 30, 2025*

At the time this compendium of essays was published, animal cognition was still sufficiently controversial that the authors and editors focused on breadth of coverage rather than depth. Their journal papers provide plenty of depth. This was like the sharp end of a spear breaking through a brick wall of conventional thinking that tend to regard "animal cognition" as an oxymoron. Too many animal psychologists were still trapped in the Skinner mindset of stimulus response association learning. This book removed all doubt about whether cognition could be studied scientifically in the field and in laboratories. I still re-read it periodically as the best available overview of the field's conceptual framework, despite it being 2 decades old.

### ⭐⭐⭐ Some really neat topics but the articles are somewhat dated ...
*by D***I on November 14, 2017*

Some really neat topics but the articles are somewhat dated by now, and not always as complete as one would think of scholarly essays.

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