Originally published in 1931, The Intelligence of Animals sets out detailed studies of various birds and beasts, some in the wild, some under domestication, and some under semi-domestication, with a view to illustrating the supreme importance of the "mental factor" in biology. These studies in comparative psychology have been undertaken in the hope of obtaining light on the distribution, survival and extinction of species. The author endeavours to analyse the behaviour and mental characteristics of certain birds and beasts, with especial reference to the question of whether these attributes are useful, or a handicap to them, in the stress of life. Today it can be read in its historical context.
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History & Theory in PsychologyIndex
PsychologyTable of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Original Title Page
- Original Copyright Page
- Preface
- Table of Contents
- Illustrations
- Part I: The Mallard and the Call or Decoy Duck, being a study of the effects of domestication on temperament and inherited modes of behaviour
- Part II: The Peafowl, being a study of a semi-domesticated bird
- Part III: Four Domestic Beasts
- Part IV: Two Friends
- Part V: A Wild Animal—the Fox
- Part VI: Three Studies in Temperament
- Part VII: Has the Fish a Mind?
- Postscript
- Index
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