Gordon M. Burghardt

Thomas R. Zentall

Josep Call

Irene Maxine Pepperberg

Charles T. Snowdon

APA Handbook of Comparative Psychology

James C. Kaufman

Allison B. Kaufman

This handbook lays out the science behind how animals think, remember, create, calculate, and remember. It provides concise overviews on major areas of study such as animal communication and language, memory and recall, social cognition, social learning and teaching, numerical and quantitative abilities, as well as innovation and problem solving. The chapters also explore more nuanced topics in greater detail, showing how the research was conducted and how it can be used for further study. The authors range from academics working in renowned university departments to those from research institutions and practitioners in zoos. The volume encompasses a wide variety of species, ensuring the breadth of the field is explored.

The Cambridge Handbook of Animal Cognition

Christophe Boesch

Crickette M. Sanz

Presentation of groundbreaking research on an extensive range of tool using animals, looking particularly at the evolution of cognitive abilities.

Cognition and Ecology

Tool Use in Animals

"Divided into six sections - communication and language, memory and recall, social cognition, social learning and teaching, numerical and quantative abilities, and innovation and problem solving the Handbook allows readers to focus specifically on what they are interested in. Concise overviews in each section provide the history and basic concepts in each area, and are helpful for both newcomers to the field or specialists seeking to gain background in different areas. Each overview is followed by three to six entries for readers who are interested in learning more about a particular subject"--

Joan B. Silk

Peter M. Kappeler

John C. Mitani

Ryne A. Palombit

In 1987, the University of Chicago Press published Primate Societies, the standard reference in the field of primate behavior for an entire generation of students and scientists. But in the twenty-five years since its publication, new theories and research techniques for studying the Primate order have been developed, debated, and tested, forcing scientists to revise their understanding of our closest living relatives. Intended as a sequel to Primate Societies, The Evolution of Primate Societies compiles thirty-one chapters that review the current state of knowledge regarding the behavior of nonhuman primates. Chapters are written by the leading authorities in the field and organized around four major adaptive problems primates face as they strive to grow, maintain themselves, and reproduce in the wild. The inclusion of chapters on the behavior of humans at the end of each major section represents one particularly novel aspect of the book, and it will remind readers what we can learn about ourselves through research on nonhuman primates. The final section highlights some of the innovative and cutting-edge research designed to reveal the similarities and differences between nonhuman and human primate cognition. The Evolution of Primate Societies will be every bit the landmark publication its predecessor has been.

The Evolution of Primate Societies

Michael Tomasello

Professor of Psychology Yerkes Primate Center Josep Call

This book reviews all that is scientifically known about the cognitive skills of non-human primates and assesses the current state of our knowledge.

Primate Cognition

The last decade has witnessed remarkable discoveries and advances in our understanding of the tool using behaviour of animals. Wild populations of capuchin monkeys have been observed to crack open nuts with stone tools, similar to the skills of chimpanzees and humans. Corvids have been observed to use and make tools that rival in complexity the behaviours exhibited by the great apes. Excavations of the nut cracking sites of chimpanzees have been dated to around 4-5 thousand years ago. Tool Use in Animals collates these and many more contributions by leading scholars in psychology, biology and anthropology, along with supplementary online materials, into a comprehensive assessment of the cognitive abilities and environmental forces shaping these behaviours in taxa as distantly related as primates and corvids.

Josep Call

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