The Question of Animal Awareness: Evolutionary Continuity of Mental Experience by Donald R. Griffin - 1976

Rockefeller University Press, New York, 1977. Reprint. Hardcover. Good Condition (ex-library)/No Dust Jacket. Size: 8vo 7 3/4 - 9 3/4". viii + 135pp. Text contains some pencil markings. Binding firm. Previous owner's book-plate laid in and ink inscription. Edges slightly browned and marked. Ex-library, with minimal stamps and markings. Covers slightly marked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Natural History & Resources; Science & Technology. ISBN: 0874700205. ISBN/EAN: 9780874700206. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 51865. . 9780874700206

New York, N.Y.: The Rockefeller University Press, 1976. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Good/Fair. viii, 135, [1] pages. Previous owner's name and date stamped on fep. DJ has wear, tears and soiling. Includes Preface, as well as chapters on Expanding Horizons in Ethology; The Versatility of Animal Communication; Is Man Language?; Are Animals Aware of What They Are Doing? Objections and their Limitations; The Adaptive Value of Conscious Awareness; and A Possible Window on the Minds of Animals. Also contains Summary and Conclusions, Bibliography, and Indexes. The future extension and refinement of two-way communication between ethologiests and the animals they study offers the prospect of developing a truly experimental science of cognitive ethology. Donald Redfield Griffin (August 3, 1915 - November 7, 2003) was an American professor of zoology at various universities who conducted seminal research in animal behavior, animal navigation, acoustic orientation and sensory… Read More