Are You Smarter Than A Chimpanzee?

Test yourself against the amazing minds of animals

Ben Ambridge

• Publisher: Profile Books
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9781781255735
• eBook ISBN:
  9781782832164
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: History & Theory in Psychology
• Index: Biological Sciences

Animal science is bizarre and wonderful. At the extreme end of zoology, psychologists are designing personality tests for dogs and logic problems for pigeons. They're giving fish spatial reasoning problems and asking cockatoos to keep a beat.

Now, through dozens of interactive puzzles, IQ tests and quizzes, Are You Smarter Than a Chimpanzee? lets you test yourself against the best nature has to offer. So: are you more than a match for a marmoset? Or a bit of a birdbrain?

Based on real, cutting-edge science and debunking common myths about animals, Are You Smarter Than a Chimpanzee? will make you question your assumptions about our place in the animal kingdom - and, finally, explain the real difference between dog-people and cat-people.

Table of contents

• Dedication
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Introduction: Relative Values
• An Expensive Cappuccino
• The Eye of the Beeholder
• The Usual Waspects
• Spot the Difference
• How the Giraffe Got His Neck
• A Fishy Tale
• Fish Are Amazing
• A Fishy Tale: You Found the Word
• A Fishy Tale: You Didn’t Find the Word
• Are You Big-Headed?
• Goatbusters
• Pigeon’s Treat
• MMMMonkeying Around
• More Monkeyconomics
• Ape, Man United
• Having a Mare (or not)
• A Stable Personality?
• The Truth about Cats and Dogs
• Dog-Person or Person-Dog?
• A Walking Dogtionary
• A Walking Dogtionary: Test
• A Walking Dogtionary: Two Years Later
• Who Man Being?
• A Formidable Problem
• The Tower of Han(t)oi
• Losing Your Marbles
• Counting Cheep
• Circle of Life
• Pige-lusi-on #1
• Pige-lusi-on #2
• Mathemalex
• Parrotnormal Activity
• A Shaggy Dog Story
• Dogtanian and the Three Must-Get-Pairs
• Turning Japanese
• Why Can’t We Talk to the Animals?
• Something To Crow About?
• Students vs Squirrels, Sorta
• Box Clever
• Is There a Dog-tor in the House?
• Let’s Get Rat-Arsed
• Oh, What a Tangled Web We Weave
• Insex
• Let’s Spend Some Quaility Time Together
• A Sick Idea
• You’ve Got To Hide Your Bug Away
• Should I Stay or Should I Go?
• Great Tits and Seedy Locations
• Great Tits and Seedy Locations: Test
• The Pecking Order
• A Weighty Problem
• For Eagle-Eyed Readers
• Fowl Play
• For Eagle-Eyed Readers: Test
• Are You a Bat, Man?
• An Elephant Never Forgets
• A Shrewd Judgement
• Left Behind?
• Cuckoo Clocks His Rivals
• Dad Calls It Quits
• School of Collective Nouns
• Signed, Sea-Lioned, Delivered
• Bird Is the Word (or Starlings in Their Eyes)
• Stringing You Along
• Are You Smarter than an Orang-Utan?
• Are You Smarter than an Orang-Utan? Test
• Are You Smarter than a Chimpanzee? #1
• Are You Smarter than a Chimpanzee? #2
• Are You Smarter than a Chimpanzee? #3
• It’s Been Emotional
• Psycho Gorilla, Qu’est-ce que c’est?
• Every Body Hurts?
• Oh, Beehave
• Taking the P***
• Self-Awareness: Have Monkeys Cottoned On?
• Epilogue: Relative Values Revisited
• References
• Credits