Books: Non-Human Animal Perception and Cognition
King Solomon's Ring
Konrad Z. Lorenz

a book written by a 1950's naturalist. the subtitle alone is significant, "the human side of animals delightfully described." it is fairly amusing to read the outdated ideas on how animals percieve things (the ability of ants to follow a trail, for example, is ascribed to their incredible memory.) there are still some fairly advanced ideas about animals, including one chapter titled "why we laugh at animals," which attempts to examine how humans frame the activities and lives of animals in their own frame of reference.

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