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The Parrot's Lament

The Parrot's Lament

And Other True Tales of Animal Intrigue, Intelligence, and Ingenuity

by Eugene Linden
Hardback
Publication Date: 01/05/2000

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When a pig saves a drowning child, a parrot invites a wild bird over for dinner, and a hyena listens to chamber music -- what are they trying to do? What are they feeling? In short, can animals think? Scientists have tried to get at the answer to this absorbing question for decades. Now Eugene Linden, who has covered their efforts as a writer and journalist, turns the question on its head and looks at what animals reveal about their intelligence and their emotions through their natural reactions to the people and creatures around them.

ISBN:
9780783890319
9780783890319
Category:
Zoology & animal sciences
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
01-05-2000
Publisher:
Cengage Gale
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
239.27x161.29x27.18mm
Weight:
0.61kg
Eugene Linden

Eugene Linden is an award-winning journalist and the author of The Parrot's Lament, The Future in Plain Sight, Silent Partners, and several other books on animals, the environment, and other issues relating to humanity's place in the natural order.

His previous book on climate change, Winds of Change, received the Grantham Prize Special Award of Merit. He has consulted for the U.S. State Department, the UN Development Program, and he is a widely traveled speaker and lecturer before audiences ranging from the intelligence community to the congregation of the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine. He lives in the Hudson Valley, in New York.

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