Read and Download Gordon M. Burghardt Book The Genesis of Animal Play in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Book The Genesis of Animal Play PDF. This book was released on 2005 with total page 532 pages. Book excerpt: A scientist examines the origins and evolutionary significance of play in humans and animals.

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Read and Download Rebecca Stefoff Book How Animals Play in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Book How Animals Play PDF. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 120 pages. Book excerpt: Ethology is the scientific study of animal behavior. It was widely thought that animal play, mostly in mammals, was part of Darwinian natural selection and somehow fit into survival of the fittest. However, animal researchers believe that animals play out of pure joy, rather than aiding in their survival. This jovial book about animal play, tells the secrets of, and the science behind, clever baboons that know which cars to break into for snacks, mighty elephants that grieve, tricky octopuses that squirt water, and beetles that read messages through their feet. This book includes explanative text by award-winning author Rebecca Stefoff and an extensive bibliography. Key scientific terms and phrases are explained and includes procedures for scientific observation.

Read and Download Anna Peterson Book Being Animal in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Book Being Animal PDF. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 240 pages. Book excerpt: For most people, animals are the most significant aspects of the nonhuman world. They symbolize nature in our imaginations, in popular media and culture, and in campaigns to preserve wilderness, yet scholars habitually treat animals and the environment as mutually exclusive objects of concern. Conducting the first examination of animals' place in popular and scholarly thinking about nature, Anna L. Peterson builds a nature ethic that conceives of nonhuman animals as active subjects who are simultaneously parts of both nature and human society. Peterson explores the tensions between humans and animals, nature and culture, animals and nature, and domesticity and wildness. She uses our intimate connections with companion animals to examine nature more broadly. Companion animals are liminal creatures straddling the boundary between human society and wilderness, revealing much about the mutually constitutive relationships binding humans and nature together. Through her paradigm-shifting reflections, Peterson disrupts the artificial boundaries between two seemingly distinct categories, underscoring their fluid and continuous character.

Read and Download Douglas Sloan Book The Redemption of the Animals in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Book The Redemption of the Animals PDF. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 297 pages. Book excerpt: As human beings, what is our true relationship to the animals on earth? What is our responsibility to our fellow creatures? Douglas Sloan explores these and other questions in this important book on the human-animal connection. His explorations are based on personal experience and wide-ranging research into the work of Rudolf Steiner and others, including scientist students of the inner life of animals and committed defenders of animal wellbeing. Rudolf Steiner describes how from the beginning of creation humans and animals have been united in deep kinship. A loss of the sense of this human–animal connection has resulted in an immense animal suffering the world over. Especially in their suffering, the animals now pose for the modern human being many pressing and perplexing questions. Are the animals conscious? Do they have feelings like ours? Do they experience pain? Do the animals have a spiritual reality and experience? Do the animals have souls and selves? Do the animals have capacities for cognitive intelligence, emotional empathy, language, and memory? Is there a crucial difference between the human and the animal, a basic difference in kind, or only a difference in degree? Do animals have rights? Are we justified in using the animals as we wish—eating them, hunting them, experimenting on them? Rudolf Steiner presents a vision of the ultimate redemption of the animals from their suffering. What is the nature of this redemption? What is our responsibility in making it happen? In exploring these and related questions with the help of Rudolf Steiner’s work and that of others on the issue, we can begin to see the importance in our time of our relating to the animals in a completely new way—a relationship that understands and respects the animals’ inner spiritual being, and one that requires a deep grasp of our own spiritual being in relation to theirs. In this book, Douglas Sloan seeks to help us toward this new relationship with the animals, both in concept and in everyday action.

Read and Download Carol Gigliotti Book The Creative Lives of Animals in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Book The Creative Lives of Animals PDF. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 304 pages. Book excerpt: "The Creative Lives of Animals offers readers intimate glimpses of how animals from elephants to alligators to ants apply the creative process in their lives, requiring a redefinition of creativity that includes animals as essential contributors to biodiversity"--

Read and Download Adam Pryor Book Living with Tiny Aliens in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Book Living with Tiny Aliens PDF. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 345 pages. Book excerpt: Astrobiology is changing how we understand meaningful human existence. Living with Tiny Aliens seeks to imagine how an individuals’ meaningful existence persists when we are planetary creatures situated in deep time—not only on a blue planet burgeoning with life, but in a cosmos pregnant with living-possibilities. In doing so, it works to articulate an astrobiological humanities. Working with a series of specific examples drawn from the study of extraterrestrial life, doctrinal reflection on the imago Dei, and reflections on the Anthropocene, Pryor reframes how human beings meaningfully dwell in the world and belong to it. To take seriously the geological significance of human agency is to understand the Earth as not only a living planet but an artful one. Consequently, Pryor reframes the imago Dei, rendering it a planetary system that opens up new possibilities for the flourishing of all creation by fostering technobiogeochemical cycles not subject to runaway, positive feedback. Such an account ensures the imago Dei is not something any one of us possesses, but that it is a symbol for what we live into together as a species in intra-action with the wider habitable environment.

Read and Download Colin Renfrew Book Ritual, Play, and Belief in Evolution and Early Human Societies in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Book Ritual, Play, and Belief in Evolution and Early Human Societies PDF. This book was released on 2018 with total page 355 pages. Book excerpt: This book presents unique new insights into the development of human ritual and society through our heritage of play and performance.

Read and Download Robert A. Wilson Book The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (MITECS) in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Book The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (MITECS) PDF. This book was released on 2001-09-04 with total page 1106 pages. Book excerpt: Since the 1970s the cognitive sciences have offered multidisciplinary ways of understanding the mind and cognition. The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (MITECS) is a landmark, comprehensive reference work that represents the methodological and theoretical diversity of this changing field. At the core of the encyclopedia are 471 concise entries, from Acquisition and Adaptationism to Wundt and X-bar Theory. Each article, written by a leading researcher in the field, provides an accessible introduction to an important concept in the cognitive sciences, as well as references or further readings. Six extended essays, which collectively serve as a roadmap to the articles, provide overviews of each of six major areas of cognitive science: Philosophy; Psychology; Neurosciences; Computational Intelligence; Linguistics and Language; and Culture, Cognition, and Evolution. For both students and researchers, MITECS will be an indispensable guide to the current state of the cognitive sciences.

Read and Download Per Jensen Book The Ethology of Domestic Animals in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Book The Ethology of Domestic Animals PDF. This book was released on 2017-09-27 with total page 311 pages. Book excerpt: Completely updated, revised and redesigned in colour throughout, this classic bestselling text continues to provide a concise introduction to the important fundamentals of animal behaviour from genetics, physiology, motivation, learning and cognition, through to social and reproductive behaviour, abnormal behaviour and human-animal interactions. This text remains a highly respected, essential resource for both students and lecturers in animal and veterinary science, animal welfare, zoology and psychology.

Read and Download Shigeru Watanabe Book Emotions of Animals and Humans in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Book Emotions of Animals and Humans PDF. This book was released on 2012-08-31 with total page 286 pages. Book excerpt: This book takes a multidisciplinary approach to emotion, with contributions from biologists, psychologists, neuroscientists, robot engineers, and artists. A wide range of emotional phenomena is discussed, including the notion that humans’ sophisticated sensibility, as evidenced by our aesthetic appreciation of the arts, is based at least in part on a basic emotional sensibility that is found in young children and perhaps even some non-human animal species. As a result, this book comprises a unique comparative perspective on the study of emotion. A number of chapters consider emotions in a variety of animal groups, including fish, birds, and mammals. Other chapters expand the scope of the book to humans and robots. Specific topics covered in these chapters run the gamut from lower-level emotional activity, such as emotional expression, to higher-level emotional activity, such as altruism, love, and aesthetics. Taken as a whole, the book presents manifold perspectives on emotion and provides a solid foundation for future multidisciplinary research on the nature of emotions.

Read and Download Angelique Richardson Book After Darwin: Animals, Emotions, and the Mind in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Book After Darwin: Animals, Emotions, and the Mind PDF. This book was released on 2013-11-10 with total page 369 pages. Book excerpt: ‘What is emotion?’ pondered the young Charles Darwin in his notebooks. How were the emotions to be placed in an evolutionary framework? And what light might they shed on human-animal continuities? These were among the questions Darwin explored in his research, assisted both by an acute sense of observation and an extraordinary capacity for fellow feeling, not only with humans but with all animal life. After Darwin: Animals, Emotions, and the Mind explores questions of mind, emotion and the moral sense which Darwin opened up through his research on the physical expression of emotions and the human–animal relation. It also examines the extent to which Darwin’s ideas were taken up by Victorian writers and popular culture, from George Eliot to the Daily News. Bringing together scholars from biology, literature, history, psychology, psychiatry and paediatrics, the volume provides an invaluable reassessment of Darwin’s contribution to a new understanding of the moral sense and emotional life, and considers the urgent scientific and ethical implications of his ideas today.

Read and Download Ivan Norscia Book The Missing Lemur Link in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Book The Missing Lemur Link PDF. This book was released on 2016-06-09 with total page pages. Book excerpt: Lemurs share a common distant ancestor with humans. Following their own evolutionary pathway, lemurs provide the ideal model to shed light on the behavioural traits of primates including conflict management, communication strategies and society building and how these aspects of social living relate to those found in the anthropoid primates. Adopting a comparative approach throughout, lemur behaviour is cross-examined with that of monkeys, apes and humans. This book reviews and expands upon the newest fields of research in lemur behavioural biology, including recent analytical approaches that have so far been limited to studies of haplorrhine primates. Different methodological approaches are harmonised in this volume to break conceptual walls between both primate taxa and different disciplines. Through a focus on the methodologies behind lemur behaviour and social interactions, future primate researchers will be encouraged to produce directly comparable results.

Read and Download Caroline Hovanec Book Animal Subjects in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Book Animal Subjects PDF. This book was released on 2018-09-06 with total page 235 pages. Book excerpt: Animal Subjects finds a new understanding of animal life in the literature and science of the early twentieth century.

Read and Download Herbert L. Colston Book How Language Makes Meaning in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Book How Language Makes Meaning PDF. This book was released on 2019-11-07 with total page 303 pages. Book excerpt: Explains the complexities of how language supports human social interaction using the framework of embodied cognition.

Read and Download Mechtild Käufe Book Canine Play Behavior in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Book Canine Play Behavior PDF. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 256 pages. Book excerpt: Is it possible that what looks like play is something else entirely? German author Mechtild Käufer presents findings from scores of researchers worldwide who study why dogs play, the benefits they get from play and how to recognize the “rules” of play that dogs follow to keep their play behaviors fun and safe. There are dozens of color photographs included to help illustrate the actions of dogs at play.

Read and Download Raymond Coppinger Book How Dogs Work in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Book How Dogs Work PDF. This book was released on 2019-04-18 with total page 264 pages. Book excerpt: Two experts, drawing on decades of research and field experiments, unlock the origins of many of our dogs most common, most puzzling and most endearing behaviors, and explore such canine mysteries as why dogs play, why they bark, how they feed and forage, why they guard and herd and much more.