我们够聪明到知道动物有多聪明吗？
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
Frans de Waal · 初版 2016 年
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为什么值得读
- 以科学视角破除人类认知独特性教条
- 展示动物在特定认知任务上的惊人表现
- 通过狼与狗的对比揭示认知测试的偏差
被誉为经典的Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?探讨了乌鸦、海豚、鹦鹉、绵羊、黄蜂、蝙蝠、黑猩猩以及倭黑猩猩等动物认知的奇妙与复杂之处，旨在揭示动物究竟有多么聪明，以及长期以来我们如何低估了它们的能力。你知道章鱼会把椰子壳当作工具吗？大象能根据性别和语言对人类进行分类吗？Kyoto University有一只年轻的雄性黑猩猩，其瞬间记忆力甚至令全人类自愧弗如？这本引人入胜、妙趣横生且底蕴深厚的de Waal里程碑之作
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……训练次数才能勉强接近所谓“低等动物”的表现。人类确实非同寻常（说实话我觉得纯粹是运气好），但我们真的自成一派吗？强烈推荐 Frans de Waal 的《Are We Smart Enough To Know How Smart Animals Are?》。
…sessions to even come close to the performance of a so-called "lesser animal". Humans are exceptional (I honestly would just say lucky), but are we truly in a different category? Highly recommend the book "Are We Smart Enough To Know How Smart Animals Are?" by Frans de Waal.
Ed Abbey 的《Desert Solitaire》和 Daniel Quinn 的《Ishmael》。两本书风格大相径庭，但都探讨了这个星球上的其他生命形式与我们究竟有多大不同。Franz de Waal 等人写的《Are we smart enough to know how smart animals are?》则从科学视角探讨了这一点。当然，Abbey 谈得更多。他有一种罕见的能力，能把书写得让人感觉就像在直接与你对话……
“Desert Solitaire” by Ed Abbey and “Ishmael” by Daniel Quinn. Both are wildly different but explore the question of how different the other forms of life on this planet are from ours. “Are we smart enough to know how smart animals are?” By Franz de Waal et al explores this from a scientific perspective. Abbeys about more, of course. He had that rare ability to turn his book into something that felt like a direct conversation with…
最近读了杰出的灵长类动物学家 Frans de Waal 写的《Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?》[1]，整个引言段落都充斥着“唯人类独尊”的教条味。甚至维基百科文章的链接就直接反驳了关于人类……的说法
Having recently read "Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?" [1] by the brilliant primatologist Frans de Waal, the whole introductory paragraph reeks of the "humans only" dogma. Even the link to the Wikipedia article directly contradicts the statement of humans…
在动物智力研究中，研究人员观察到物种更倾向于向同类学习。Frans de Waal 的《Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?》[0] 中有一章写得非常好，讨论了狼和狗的区别。许多人认为狗比狼聪明，因为狗更愿意听从/观察人类。然而，当测试被安排成……
In animal intelligence studies, researchers have observed that species are more keen to learn from members of their own kind. There's a great chapter in Frans de Waal's "Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?"[0] which discusses the difference between wolves and dogs. Many people believe dogs are smarter than wolves because they are more keen to listen/observe humans. However when the tests are arranged so…
……动物对自己生活的好几平方英里的土地有着精细的内部脑图。随便挑一件典型的 3 岁小孩能做的事，我们都能找到一种动物在这方面超越他们。《Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?》https://www.amazon.com/Are-Smart-Enough-Know-Animals/dp/0393...
…animals have a detailed internal map of many square miles of land on which they live. Pick just about anything a typical 3 year old can do, and we can find an animal to outperform them in that respect. Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? https://www.amazon.com/Are-Smart-Enough-Know-Animals/dp/0393...
读起来很过瘾——几乎赶得上 Franz de Waal 的《Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?》（这项研究和其他研究在书中都有被引用）https://www.amazon.com/Are-Smart-Enough-Know-Animals/dp/1783... 。
a great read -- almost as good as Franz de Waal's "Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?" (where this study and others are cited) https://www.amazon.com/Are-Smart-Enough-Know-Animals/dp/1783... .