Open Questions: Animal Cognition
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Sites with general resources
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Chimpanzee Cultures
- "This website gives access to an online database that
describes the cultural variations in chimpanzee behaviour,
and shows behaviour distributions across the long-term study
sites in Africa."
Surveys, overviews, tutorials
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Meet the brains of the animal world
- May 2009 BBC News feature article article about tool use and
memory ability of corvids.
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One World, Many Minds: Intelligence in the Animal Kingdom
- December 2008 Scientific American Mind article,
subtitled "We are used to thinking of humans as occupying the
sole pinnacle of evolutionary intelligence. That's where we're
wrong."
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Animal Intelligence and the Evolution of the Human Mind
- August 2008 Scientific American Mind article,
by Ursula Dicke and Gerard Roth,
subtitled "Subtle refinements in brain architecture, rather
than large-scale alterations, make us smarter than other animals."
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Think Animals Don't Think Like Us? Think Again
- January 2009 Discover article, subtitled
"One extraordinary parrot helped shatter our preconceptions about
animal intelligence."
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Aping the Stone Age
Bruce Bower
Science News, November 21, 2009
- Chimp chasers join artifact extractors to probe the roots
of stone tools.
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More Animals Seem to Have Some Ability to Count
Michael Tennesen
Scientific American, September 2009
- Counting may be innate in many species
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Why Are Some Animals So Smart?
Carel van Schaik
Scientific American, April 2006
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