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    Parrot's Lament, The and Other True Tales of Animal Intrigue, Intelligen

    Author Eugene Linden
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    Penguin Adult HC/TR | Plume
    On sale Aug 01, 2000 | 224 Pages | 9781101222386
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    A gorilla shrewdly sells back a missing key chain to the highest bidder. An orangutan picks a lock to let himself out of his zoo enclosure and two elephants adopt a tag-team strategy to keep their handlers from putting them back into theirs.

    In The Parrot's Lament, noted environmentalist Eugene Linden offers more than one hundred true anecdotes about animal acts of cooperation, heroism, escape—even tales of deception or manipulation of human beings. Drawing on the first-person experiences of veterinarians, field biologists, researchers, and trainers, Linden has compiled a warmly entertaining and powerfully persuasive argument for animal consciousness that, while not human, far exceeds what humans usually grant animals.

    Scientifically sound and emotionally compelling, The Parrot's Lament contains remarkable stories that are sure to resonate with animal lovers, turning skeptics everywhere into believers.
    Preface
    Introduction

    The Wolf Who Made Friends with a Goat Games and Humor
    "She Didn't Know Human, and He Didn't Know Gorilla . . . " Trade and Barter
    Ah, Treachery Deception
    I Think that You Think that I Think that You Think . . . Mind Reading and Mental Chess
    The Pig Who Ran to Work Cooperation in Work, Conflict, and Healing
    Orangutan Engineers and Nut-Cracking Chimps Tools and Intelligence
    Escape from Topeka . . . And Omaha, and Brownsville, and . . .
    Love! Valor! Compassion! Empathy and Heroism
    What Do They Make of Us? A Place Where Humans Are the Novelty

    Selected Bibliography
    Index


    Eugene Linden is an award-winning journalist and writer on science, nature, and the environment. He is the author of nine books of nonfiction and one novel. His previous book on climate change, The Winds of Change, explores the connection between climate change and the rise and fall of civilizations, and was awarded a Grantham Prize Award of Special Merit. For many years, Linden wrote about nature and global environmental issues for Time, where he garnered several awards including the American Geophysical Union’s Walter Sullivan Award.

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    A gorilla shrewdly sells back a missing key chain to the highest bidder. An orangutan picks a lock to let himself out of his zoo enclosure and two elephants adopt a tag-team strategy to keep their handlers from putting them back into theirs.

    In The Parrot's Lament, noted environmentalist Eugene Linden offers more than one hundred true anecdotes about animal acts of cooperation, heroism, escape—even tales of deception or manipulation of human beings. Drawing on the first-person experiences of veterinarians, field biologists, researchers, and trainers, Linden has compiled a warmly entertaining and powerfully persuasive argument for animal consciousness that, while not human, far exceeds what humans usually grant animals.

    Scientifically sound and emotionally compelling, The Parrot's Lament contains remarkable stories that are sure to resonate with animal lovers, turning skeptics everywhere into believers.

    Table of Contents

    Preface
    Introduction

    The Wolf Who Made Friends with a Goat Games and Humor
    "She Didn't Know Human, and He Didn't Know Gorilla . . . " Trade and Barter
    Ah, Treachery Deception
    I Think that You Think that I Think that You Think . . . Mind Reading and Mental Chess
    The Pig Who Ran to Work Cooperation in Work, Conflict, and Healing
    Orangutan Engineers and Nut-Cracking Chimps Tools and Intelligence
    Escape from Topeka . . . And Omaha, and Brownsville, and . . .
    Love! Valor! Compassion! Empathy and Heroism
    What Do They Make of Us? A Place Where Humans Are the Novelty

    Selected Bibliography
    Index


    Author

    Eugene Linden is an award-winning journalist and writer on science, nature, and the environment. He is the author of nine books of nonfiction and one novel. His previous book on climate change, The Winds of Change, explores the connection between climate change and the rise and fall of civilizations, and was awarded a Grantham Prize Award of Special Merit. For many years, Linden wrote about nature and global environmental issues for Time, where he garnered several awards including the American Geophysical Union’s Walter Sullivan Award.

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