Elephant Sense and Sensibility Behavior and Cognition

About this book

Elephant Sense and Sensibility is a comprehensive treatment of the full range of elephant behavior. Beginning with chapters on evolution and the elephant's brain, this book is an integrated presentation of the elephant's capacity for memory, morality, emotion, empathy, altruism, language, intelligence, learning and teaching. Grounded primarily in scientific research, Elephant Sense and Sensibility also draws upon anecdotal and visual evidence showing elephants thinking, acting, feeling and behaving in ways that we, as humans, recognize. This complete treatment of elephant behavior supported by the extensive literature, along with anecdotal and photographic material, provides an overview not available in any other text.

Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgements
Frontispiece
Preface

1. Introduction
2. Elephant Evolution
3. An Elephant’s Brain
4. Functioning of the Brain
5. Memory
6. Morality
7. Emotions
8. Empathy and Altruism
9. Communication
10. Language
11. Intelligence
12. Learning and Teaching
13. The Sensory Environment of Elephants
14. Them and Us

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