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Animal thinking : contemporary issues in comparative cognition / edited by Randolf Menzel and Julia Fischer.

Author: Ernst Strüngmann Forum ( 8th : 2010 : Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

Imprint:Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, c2011.

Descriptionxi, 342 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.

Note:"Eighth Ernst Strüngmann Forum held Sep. 26-Oct. 1, 2010, Frankfurt am Main."

Note:Navigation and communication in honeybees / Randolf Menzel -- Navigating in a three-dimensional world / Kathryn J. Jeffery -- Making the case for the intelligence of avian navigation / Verner P. Bingman -- Animal navigation : a synthesis / Jan Weiner ... [et al.] -- Goal-directed behavior and future planning in animals / Anthony Dickinson -- Mechanisms for decisions about the future / Jeffrey R. Stevens -- Status of nonhuman memory monitoring and possible roles in planning and decision making / Robert R. Hampton -- Planning, memory, and decision making / Amanda Seed ... [et al.] -- Where is the information in animal communication? / Julia Fischer -- Communication in social insects : sophisticated problem solving by groups of tiny-brained animals / Christoph Gruter -- Language and episodic sharing / Michael C. Corballis -- Communication / Brandon C. Wheeler ... [et al.] -- How intelligent is Machiavellian behavior? / Redouan Bshary ... [et al.] -- Simple reactions to nearby neighbors and complex social behavior in primates / Charlotte K. Hemelrijk -- Cooperation in nonhuman primates : function and cognition / Dorothy L. Cheney -- How folk psychology ruined comparative psychology : and how scrub jays can save it / Derek C. Penn -- Social knowledge / Keith Jensen ... [et al.].

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-335) and index.



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Author:
Ernst Strüngmann Forum ( 8th : 2010 : Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Series Added Entry
Strüngmann Forum reports
Subject:
Cognition in animals -- Congresses.
Animal navigation -- Congresses.
Decision making in animals -- Congresses.
Social behavior in animals -- Congresses.
Animal communication -- Congresses.
Index Term - Genre/Form
Conference papers and proceedings.
Contributor
Menzel, Randolf, 1940-
Fischer, Julia, 1966-