Reaching The Animal Mind

Author : Karen Pryor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416546251
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reaching the Animal Mind written by Karen Pryor and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-06-16 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the founder of “clicker” training, the widely praised humane approach to shaping animal behavior, comes a fascinating book—part memoir, part insight into how animals and people think and behave. A celebrated pioneer in the field of no-punishment animal training, Karen Pryor is responsible for developing clicker training—an all-positive, safe, effective way to modify and shape animal behavior—and she has changed the lives of millions of animals. Practical, engrossing, and full of fascinating stories about Pryor’s interactions with animals of all sorts, Reaching the Animal Mind presents the sum total of her life’s work. She explains the science behind clicker training, how and why it works, and offers step-by-step instructions on how you can clicker-train any animal in your life. For bonus video clips, slide shows, articles, downloadable exercises, and links expanding on the contents of the book, go to ReachingtheAnimalMind.com.

Author : Karen Pryor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743297768
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reaching the Animal Mind written by Karen Pryor and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-06-16 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The behavioral biologist and author of Don't Shoot the Dog! outlines her non-punitive animal training method that has become popular with animal handlers throughout the world, recounting the success stories of such examples as a surfing pony, a police dog, and depressed Philadelphia Zoo birds.

Author : Kristin Andrews
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351362968
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Animal Mind written by Kristin Andrews and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-08 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The philosophy of animal minds addresses profound questions about the nature of mind and the relationships between humans and other animals. In this fully revised and updated introductory text, Kristin Andrews introduces and assesses the essential topics, problems, and debates as they cut across animal cognition and philosophy of mind, citing historical and cutting-edge empirical data and case studies throughout. The second edition includes a new chapter on animal culture. There are also new sections on the evolution of consciousness and tool use in animals, as well as substantially revised sections on mental representation, belief, communication, theory of mind, animal ethics, and moral psychology. Further features such as chapter summaries, annotated further reading, and a glossary make The Animal Mind an indispensable introduction to those teaching philosophy of mind, philosophy of animal minds or animal cognition. It will also be an excellent resource for those in fields such as ethology, biology, and psychology.

Author : The Editors of TIME
Publisher : Time Inc. Books
ISBN 13 : 1683302206
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book TIME The Animal Mind written by The Editors of TIME and published by Time Inc. Books. This book was released on 2017-06-09 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lesley J. Rogers
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 9781864485042
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Minds of Their Own written by Lesley J. Rogers and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 1997 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines animal behaviour and also the structure and functioning of their brains to give an understanding of how animals think.

Author : James L. Gould
Publisher : Times Books
ISBN 13 : 9780716760351
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Animal Mind written by James L. Gould and published by Times Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, James and Carol Gould go in search of the animal mind. Taking a fresh look at the evidence on animal capacities for perception, thought, and language, the Goulds show how scientists attempt to distinguish actions that go beyond the innate or automatically learned. They provide captivating, beautifully-illustrated descriptions of a number of clever and curious animal behaviors - some revealed to be more or less preprogrammed, some seemingly proof of a well-developed mental life.

Author : Donald Redfield Griffin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animal Mind, Human Mind written by Donald Redfield Griffin and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Donald R. Griffin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022622712X
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animal Minds written by Donald R. Griffin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 at the forefront of research in animal cognition for decades, and is recognized as one of the leading behavioral ecologists of the twentieth century. With this new edition of his classic book, which he has completely revised and updated, Griffin moves beyond considerations of animal cognition to argue that scientists can and should investigate questions of animal consciousness. Using examples from studies of species ranging from chimpanzees and dolphins to birds and honeybees, he demonstrates how communication among animals can serve as a "window" into what animals think and feel, just as human speech and nonverbal communication tell us most of what we know about the thoughts and feelings of other people. Even when they don't communicate about it, animals respond with sometimes surprising versatility to new situations for which neither their genes nor their previous experiences have prepared them, and Griffin discusses what these behaviors can tell us about animal minds. He also reviews the latest research in cognitive neuroscience, which has revealed startling similarities in the neural mechanisms underlying brain functioning in both humans and other animals. Finally, in four chapters greatly expanded for this edition, Griffin considers the latest scientific research on animal consciousness, pro and con, and explores its profound philosophical and ethical implications.

Author : Matthew Scarth
Publisher : Lennex
ISBN 13 : 9785458877367
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What the Whole World Is Saying written by Matthew Scarth and published by Lennex. This book was released on 2013-01 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, we have hand-picked the most sophisticated, unanticipated, absorbing (if not at times crackpot!), original and musing book reviews of "Reaching the Animal Mind: Clicker Training and What It Teaches Us About All Animals." Don't say we didn't warn you: these reviews are known to shock with their unconventionality or intimacy. Some may be startled by their biting sincerity; others may be spellbound by their unbridled flights of fantasy. Don't buy this book if: 1. You don't have nerves of steel. 2. You expect to get pregnant in the next five minutes. 3. You've heard it all.

Author : D. R. Griffin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642684696
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animal Mind — Human Mind written by D. R. Griffin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: the oleic acid on a live and wriggling sister or mother and refrain from evicting her from our hive. But does the occur rence of unintelligent behavior suffice to demonstrate the total absence of mental experience under any circumstances? Ethologists from some distant galaxy could easily discern ex amples of stupid and maladaptive behavior in our own species. But do instances of human stupidity prove that none of us is ever consciously aware of what he is dOing? No available evi dence compels us to believe that insects, or any other animals, experience any sort of consciousness, or intentionally plan any of their behavior. But neither are we compelled to believe the contrary. In areas where data are few and of limited rel evance, dogmatic negativity can easily limit what scientists even try to investigate, and thus perhaps delay or prevent im portant insights and discoveries. Many of the participants agreed that a good starting point would be to consider what we know of our own thinking, subjec tive feelings, and consciousness, and then move on to inquire whether other species experience anything similar. Such an ap proach was once considered fallaciously anthropomorphic. But it seems now to be widely if not universally recognized that this is a serious objection only if one has already assumed in advance that conscious thinking is uniquely human, and the accu sation of anthropomorphism is then merely a reiteration of the prior conviction.