How Monkeys See the World

Inside the Mind of Another Species

Dorothy L. Cheney, Robert M. Seyfarth

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9780226102467, 9780226102450
• eBook ISBN: 9780226218526
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Zoology
• Index: Biological Sciences

Cheney and Seyfarth enter the minds of vervet monkeys and other primates to explore the nature of primate intelligence and the evolution of cognition.

"This reviewer had to be restrained from stopping people in the street to urge them to read it: They would learn something of the way science is done, something about how monkeys see their world, and something about themselves, the mental models they inhabit."—Roger Lewin, Washington Post Book World

"A fascinating intellectual odyssey and a superb summary of where science stands."—Geoffrey Cowley, Newsweek

"A once-in-the-history-of-science enterprise."—Duane M. Rumbaugh, Quarterly Review of Biology

INDEX

Abegglen, J., 299

Abercrombie, D., 99

Abramson, A., 124

accessibility of knowledge, 17–18, 182–83, 240–41, 246–47, 249, 258–59, 262–63, 273, 296, 300–302, 305, 311–12. See also intelligence; knowing what you know

alarm calls

in vervets, 102–12, 128–35, 137–38, 139, 141–42, 143–44, 145–46, 150–55, 161–64, 165, 166–71, 174, 177–78, 182, 185, 190, 193, 196, 201–2, 204, 205, 207, 213–15, 218–19, 225, 274–76, 280–81, 283–84, 285–86, 301, 306, 309; baboon, 111–12; eagle, 103; leopard, 102–3, 171; minor mammalian predator, 110; snake, 103; “unfamiliar humans,” 111

in other monkeys, 100, 112

in starlings, 136, 159–64, 171, 272–76

in impalas, 273–76

in other nonprimates, 112–13, 146–48, 165, 190–91, 198–99, 205, 218–19, 273, 276, 277–79, 307

attending to other species’ alarm calls, 136, 158–64, 167, 170–71, 272–76

Alatalo, R., 186

Alexander, R., 71

Allen, C., 169, 177

alliances, 27

in female monkeys, 27–33, 35–37, 39, 44, 67–71, 79, 85

in male monkeys, 33, 43–44, 67, 196–97, 249–51

in apes, 39–40, 70, 197, 249, 291–92

in nonprimates, 85, 299–300

between social groups, 298–300

function of, 31, 33, 35–36, 39, 43–44, 67–71, 79, 85, 291

tactical use of, 1...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Copyright
• Title Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• One. What Is It Like to be a Monkey?
• Two. Social Behavior
• Three. Social Knowledge
• Four. Vocal Communication
• Five. What the Vocalizations of Monkeys Mean
• Six. Summarizing the Mental Representations of Vocalizations and Social Relationships
• Seven. Deception
• Eight. Attribution
• Nine. Social and Nonsocial Intelligence
• Ten. How Monkeys See the World
• Appendix
• References
• Index