
What Do Animals Think and Feel?
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Dolphins call one another by name and orcas inhabit a culture that is over 700,000 years old. Chimpanzees wage strategic warfare, while bonobos delight in dirty talk. Ravens enjoy snowboarding on snow-covered roofs, and snails like to spin on hamster exercise wheels. Humped-back whales follow the dictates of fashion and rats are dedicated party animals. Ants recognize themselves in mirrors and spruce themselves up before they return home. Ducklings can pass complicated tests in abstract thinking. Dogs punish disloyalty, though they are also capable of forgiveness if you apologize to them.
Brensing draws on the latest scientific findings as well as his own experience working with animals, to reveal a world of behavioural and cognitive sophistication that is remarkably similar to our own.
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A very exciting read * General-Anzeiger, Bonn * Brensing is [...] an idealist, committed to the coexistence of humans and animals * Mitteldeutsche Zeitung * Brensing shows impressively that there is no reason to deny animals an inner life of pain, fear, grief and joy * Maerkische Allgemeine Zeitung *More details
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- Intro
- Welcome Page
- Copyright
- Epigraph
- Contents
- I. What bowls me over (or, put more simply, Introduction)
- II. Going at it like animals
- 1. Alien sex
- 2. Sex toys
- 3. Rape
- 4. Gangbangs
- 5. Hormones in the driving seat
- 6. Pheromone parties
- 7. BDSM
- III. Unknown cultures
- 8. What would Sherlock Holmes' verdict have been?
- 9. Music and fashion
- 10. On good taste
- 11. Patent office or open-source?
- 'Chimpanzee Stone Age'
- Heavy nomads and light nutcrackers
- 'Spongers' and 'shellers': animal lifestyles
- Animal architects
- Tools without culture
- 12. The secret language of animals
- Audible language
- Dialects in the animal kingdom
- Talking dirty
- Gestures and symbols
- Body language and pointing
- 13. What's culture got to do with conservation?
- IV. A sense of community
- 14. The hedonistic society
- The chemistry of enjoyment
- What is play?
- Anyone who breaks the rules loses!
- 15. The Oedipus complex
- 16. A monarchy with room for democrats
- 17. Bestial biographies
- 18. Like Facebook, only different
- 19. The invention of morality
- 20. Death cults and war
- 21. The brokers
- V. On thought
- 22. If you think that you're thinking, then you're only thinking you're thinking
- Mental images
- Logic
- Abstract thought
- Strategic thinking and creativity
- Mathematics
- The marshmallow test - on thinking about thinking
- 23. Who am I, and who exactly are you?
- Self-awareness
- Personality
- I know that you exist
- 'Clever Hans'
- Theory of mind
- False belief
- 24. Against reason
- 25. The thinking apparatus
- 26. Shamans
- Under the influence
- Chickenpox parties and other forms of medicine
- VI. Sentimentality
- 27. The interface
- 28. Dopamine - flooring the happiness pedal?
- 29. Cold as a fish
- 30. Rats - nature's party animals
- VII. The pinnacle of creation
- 31. The human USP
- Brain development
- Mental illnesses and psychotropic drugs
- 32. Experimental errors
- Misinterpretations
- False negative results
- Comparative behavioural research
- 33. Of humans and animals: whale watching versus whale hunting and drive hunting
- VIII. Epilogue
- Endnotes
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- An Invitation from the Publisher
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