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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
The Future of the Mind is my first choice also, but Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? would be another great one. If there's one aspect of life in which I feel scientists and philosophers have let us down, it's in the understanding of animal intelligence and emotions. In the past, so many of them have been so fearful of "anthropomorphizing" animal behavior that they refused to admit the possibility of animal's sense of self altogether. As de Waal has pointed out elsewhere, that view is slowly changing. And then there's Death from the Skies. You can hardly go wrong reading a book by the Bad Astronomer himself, Phil Plait.
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No doubt about the selection this month. I have not had much opportunity to read about animal behaviour and sense. Off course the nature or wildlife documentaries try a lot but always but I always thought they were more for entertainment value than real understanding.