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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      July 2018
      August 2018
      ISBN:
      9781108333191
      9781108420327
      9781108413947
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108333191
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.06kg, 456 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.92kg, 456 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Animal Behaviour, Life Sciences, Evolutionary Biology
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    Would you ask a honeybee to point at a screen and recognise a facial expression? Or ask an elephant to climb a tree? While humans and non-human species may inhabit the same world, it's likely that our perceptual worlds differ significantly. Emphasising Uexküll's concept of 'umwelt', this volume offers practical advice on how animal cognition can be successfully tested while avoiding anthropomorphic conclusions. The chapters describe the capabilities of a range of animals - from ants, to lizards to chimpanzees - revealing how to successfully investigate animal cognition across a variety of taxa. The book features contributions from leading cognition researchers, each offering a series of examples and practical tips drawn from their own experience. Together, the authors synthesise information on current field and laboratory methods, providing researchers and graduate students with methodological advice on how to formulate research questions, design experiments and adapt studies to different taxa.

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    ‘Field and Laboratory Methods in Animal Cognition, edited by Bueno-Guerra and Amici, manages also to implicitly teach some of the fundamentals of cognition in the way it showcases methods. By illuminating how similar cognitive principles need to be tested differently across species, the existence of the volume itself proves the importance of the 'Umwelt' concept it champions. With a star-studded lineup of authors, the book serves as a snapshot of who is doing what and how in the field of comparative cognition.’

    Alison L. Greggor Source: The Quarterly Review of Biology

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