Intelligence animal

Thorndike EL (1988) Animal Intelligence An Experimental Study of the Associative Processes in Animals, McMillan, New York. 

As with so much of psychology, the seed of a modern idea seems to have germinated with Donald Hebb. In his studies of models of animal intelligence,... 

Animals offer the opportunity to alter brain structure and directly examine the behavioural effects. As we have defined tasks appropriate for animal intelligence , we can begin to define brain—behaviour relationships by testing specific hypotheses. 

There is a story that was related to me by a research biologist at Disney World in Orlando, Florida. When I asked her if she could comment on reports of animal intelligence, she said she didn t know if all animals were intelligent, but one incident stands out in her mind. 

Yoerg, S. L, 2001, Clever as a Fox Animal Intelligence and What It Can Teach Us about Ourselves, Bloomsbury, New York. 

Thorndike, E. L., Animal Intelligence Experimental Studies, Hafner, New York, 1911. 

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