Animal Intelligence

From Ants To Whales The Lives Of Animals Are Filled With Challenges That Demand Minute-By-Minute Decisions: To Fight Or Flee Dominate Or Obey Take-Off Share Eat Spit Out Or Court. Learning Develops Adaptive Tuning To A Changeable Environment While Intelligence Helps Animals Use Their Learned Experiences In New Situations. Using Examples From Field To Laboratory Animal Intelligence Pools Resources From Ethology Behavioural Ecology And Comparative Psychology To Help The Reader Enter The World Of Wild Intelligence Through The Analysis Of Adventures Of Ideas And Methods Rather Than Through Theoretic Modelling. It Reminds Us That There Is A World Of Intellectual Biodiversity Out There Providing A Multi-Faceted Panorama Of Animal Intelligence.