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The Parrot's Lament: And Other True Tales of Animal Intrigue, Intelligence, and Ingenuity Paperback - 2000
by Eugene Linden
Summary
A gorilla shrewdly sells back a missing key chain to the highest bidder. An orangutan picks a lock to let himself out of his zoo enclosure and two elephants adopt a tag-team strategy to keep their handlers from putting them back into theirs. In The Parrot's Lament, noted environmentalist Eugene Linden offers more than one hundred true anecdotes about animal acts of cooperation, heroism, escape--even tales of deception or manipulation of human beings. Drawing on the first-person experiences of veterinarians, field biologists, researchers, and trainers, Linden has compiled a warmly entertaining and powerfully persuasive argument for animal consciousness that, while not human, far exceeds what humans usually grant animals. Scientifically sound and emotionally compelling, The Parrot's Lament contains remarkable stories that are sure to resonate with animal lovers, turning skeptics everywhere into believers.
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- Title The Parrot's Lament: And Other True Tales of Animal Intrigue, Intelligence, and Ingenuity
- Author Eugene Linden
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reissue
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Plume Books, New York
- Date August 1, 2000
- ISBN 9780452280687 / 0452280680
- Weight 0.46 lbs (0.21 kg)
- Dimensions 8.01 x 5.37 x 0.6 in (20.35 x 13.64 x 1.52 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Animal behavior, Animal intelligence
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99023424
- Dewey Decimal Code 591.5
Media reviews
"Linden reveals how animals demonstrate aspects of intelligence as they escape from, cheat and outfox humans."Time magazine
"[Linden's] incisive prose turns even these non-human scoundrels into endearing subjects." The New York Times Book Review
"[Linden's] incisive prose turns even these non-human scoundrels into endearing subjects." The New York Times Book Review
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