This article aims to organise existing data to test the theory that, when a behavior has been established in response to a certain stimulus, novel stimuli resembling the first will usually elicit the same response.
Cognitive Ethology and the Explanation of Nonhuman Animal Behavior
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In this paper, Marc Bekoff attempts to demonstrate the importance of cognitive ethological investigations for advancing the understanding of animal cognition.
A critique of two books on the language ability of non-human primates: “Apes, Language and Human Mind” by Savage-Rumbaugh and others, and “Being there: putting mind, world and body together again” by Andy Clarke.