Denken Tiere? Fühlen sie? Trauernde Elefanten, werkzeugnutzende Krähen, empathische Ratten – die Tierpsychologie zeigt: Wir sind nicht allein mit Bewusstsein, Emotionen und Intelligenz.

Themen:

• Werkzeuggebrauch bei Krähen und Schimpansen
• Selbsterkennung im Spiegel (Elefanten, Delfine, Elstern)
• Trauer bei Elefanten und Empathie bei Ratten
• Soziale Intelligenz bei Primaten
• Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness (2012)

Grundlagenwerke:

• Darwin, C. (1872). The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. John Murray.
• de Waal, F. (2016). Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? W. W. Norton.
• Bekoff, M. (2007). The Emotional Lives of Animals. New World Library.

Kognition & Intelligenz:

• Goodall, J. (1986). The Chimpanzees of Gombe. Harvard University Press.
• Hunt, G. R. (1996). "Manufacture and use of hook-tools by New Caledonian crows." Nature, 379, 249-251.
• Emery, N. J., & Clayton, N. S. (2004). "The mentality of crows: convergent evolution of intelligence in corvids and apes." Science, 306(5703), 1903-1907.

Selbsterkennung:

• Gallup, G. G. (1970). "Chimpanzees: self-recognition." Science, 167(3914), 86-87.
• Plotnik, J. M., et al. (2006). "Self-recognition in an Asian elephant." PNAS, 103(45), 17053-17057.
• Prior, H., et al. (2008). "Mirror-induced behavior in the magpie." PLoS Biology, 6(8), e202.

Emotionen & Empathie:

• Bartal, I. B.-A., et al. (2011). "Empathy and pro-social behavior in rats." Science, 334(6061), 1427-1430.
• Bates, L. A., et al. (2008). "African elephants have expectations about the locations of out-of-sight family members." Biology Letters, 4(1), 34-36.

Kommunikation:

• Seyfarth, R. M., et al. (1980). "Vervet monkey alarm calls: semantic communication in a free-ranging primate." Animal Behaviour, 28(4), 1070-1094.
• Savage-Rumbaugh, S., et al. (1998). "Apes, Language, and the Human Mind." Oxford University Press.

Bewusstsein:

• Low, P., et al. (2012). The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness. Francis Crick Memorial Conference, Cambridge.
• Godfrey-Smith, P. (2016). Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

• Jane Goodall Institute: www.janegoodall.org
• The Nonhuman Rights Project: www.nonhumanrights.org
• Animal Cognition Journal: Springer
• Marc Bekoff's Blog "Animal Emotions": Psychology Today

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