什么将你的头脑与动物的头脑分开？也许你认为这是你设计工具的能力，你的自我意识，或者你对过去和未来的把握 - 所有这些特征帮助我们将自己定义为地球上的卓越物种。但近几十年来，对动物认知研究的革命侵蚀了人类优越性。采取章鱼的方式使用椰子壳作为工具，或者大象如何按年龄，性别和语言对人类进行分类。以京都大学年轻的黑猩猩Ayumu为例，他展示了他的物种特殊的摄影记忆。Frans de Waal基于对一系列动物的研究，包括乌鸦，海豚，鹦鹉，绵羊，黄蜂，蝙蝠，鲸鱼，当然还有黑猩猩和倭黑猩猩，探索动物智力的范围和深度，揭示了我们如何严重低估了非人类的大脑。他将动物的观点推翻为刺激 - 反应的生物，并开启了我们对复杂而复杂的头脑的眼睛。通过惊人的动物认知故事，我们是否足够聪明以知道聪明动物是如何？挑战你认为你知道的关于动物和人类智能的一切
What separates your mind from the mind of an animal? Maybe you think it's your ability to design tools, your sense of self, or your grasp of past and future - all traits that have helped us define ourselves as the pre-eminent species on Earth. But in recent decades, claims of human superiority have been eroded by a revolution in the study of animal cognition. Take the way octopuses use coconut shells as tools, or how elephants can classify humans by age, gender, and language. Take Ayumu, the young male chimpanzee at Kyoto University who demonstrates his species' exceptional photographic memory. Based on research on a range of animals, including crows, dolphins, parrots, sheep, wasps, bats, whales, and, of course, chimpanzees and bonobos, Frans de Waal explores the scope and depth of animal intelligence, revealing how we have grossly underestimated non-human brains. He overturns the view of animals as stimulus-response beings and opens our eyes to their complex and intricate minds. With astonishing stories of animal cognition, Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? challenges everything you thought you knew about animal - and human - intelligence.

被誉为经典之作的《我们足够聪明吗，知道动物有多聪明吗？探索乌鸦、海豚、鹦鹉、绵羊、黄蜂、蝙蝠、黑猩猩和倭黑猩猩等动物认知的古怪和复杂性，揭示动物到底有多聪明，以及我们长期以来如何低估它们的能力。你知道吗，章鱼使用椰子壳作为工具，大象根据性别和语言对人类进行分类，京都大学里有一只年轻的雄性黑猩猩，它的闪存让人类感到羞耻？德瓦尔的里程碑式作品引人入胜、有趣且见多识广，将说服您重新思考您认为自己所知道的关于动物和人类智能的一切。

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