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ESSAYS ON ETHOLOGY, WITH A SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON COGNITIVE APPROACHES
COGNITIVE
ETHOLOGY AND THE EXPLANATION OF NONHUMAN ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR
- Marc Bekoff
In this paper I attempt to provide a convincing case for the importance of
cognitive ethological investigations for advancing our knowledge of animal
cognition...
COGNITIVE
ETHOLOGY: SLAYERS, SKEPTICS AND PROPONENTS
-
Marc Bekoff, Colin Allen
Categorizing
views on cognitive ethology in the way we do it here helps us to
identify common themes, which in turn helps us to see to what extent
genuine dialogue between critics and defenders is possible
COMMON
SENSE, COGNITIVE ETHOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
- Marc Bekoff
Thinking about great apes as members of the
community of equals has also made me think about some aspects of
what it is like to be a scientist.
ETHOLOGY
- From Wikipedia
Ethology
is the scientific study of animal behaviour (particularly of social
animals such as primates and canids), and is a branch of zoology.
EYE COLOR: A KEY TO HUMAN AND ANIMAL BEHAVIOR - Morgan Worthy
Full text in e-form
IMITATION
IN ANIMALS: EVIDENCE, FUNCTION, AND MECHANISMS
- Tom Zentall and
Chana Akins
Much
of the ambiguity in the literature as to what should be called
imitation can be attributed to the distinction between the function
of imitation and the mechanisms responsible for it.
LESSONS
FROM COGNITIVE ETHOLOGY: ANIMAL MODELS FOR ETHOLOGICAL COMPUTING
-
Irene M. Pepperberg
How can we
determine what processes are involved in optimal learning—for
both animals and humans? And can we adapt and model these processes
for robotic intelligence?
PHILOSOPHY
OF COGNITIVE ETHOLOGY
- Colin Allen
The simplest characterization of cognitive ethology is that it is the
marriage of cognitive scienceand ethology. But simple characterizations of
any marriage should never be trusted...
THE BURGESS ANIMAL BOOK FOR CHILDREN -
Thornton W. Burgess
Full text in e-form
THE
DESCENT OF MAN - Charles Darwin
Full
text in e-form
THE
MAGICAL, MYSTERIOUS PURR
-
Wendy Christensen
No one is entirely sure how a cat
purrs. An obvious problem is
that by the time an investigator gets in to search out the mechanism, the
cat has stopped purring
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