<p>What really differentiates us from our relatives in the animal world? And what can they teach us about ourselves? Taking these questions as his starting point, Norbert Sachser presents fascinating insights into the inner lives of animals, revealing what we now know about their thoughts, feelings and behaviour. By turns surprising, humourous and thought-provoking, Much Like Us invites us on a journey around the animal kingdom, explaining along the way how dogs demonstrate empathy, why chimpanzees wage war and how crows and ravens craft tools to catch food. Sachser brings the science to life with examples and anecdotes drawn from his own research, illuminating the vast strides in understanding that have been made over the last 30 years. He ultimately invites us to challenge our own preconceptions – the closer we look, the more we see the humanity in our fellow creatures.</p>

Much Like Us: What Science Reveals about the Thoughts, Feelings, and Behaviour of Animals

Science & Math

Sachser, Norbert

Biological Sciences

Cambridge University Press

<p>This up-to-date review examines key areas of animal behaviour, including communication, cognition, conflict, cooperation, sexual selection and behavioural variation. Various tests are covered, including recent empirical examples.</p>

Animal Behaviour: Evolution and Mechanisms

Kappeler, Peter M.

Anthes, Nils

Bergmüller, Ralph

Blanckenhorn, Wolf

Brockmann, H. Jane

Fichtel, Claudia

Fromhage, Lutz

Frommen, Joachim

Goymann, Wolfgang

Heinze, Juergen

Hirschenhauser, Katharina

Hofer, Heribert

Kaiser, Sylvia

Kempenaers, Bart

Kerth, Gerald

Korb, Judith Ingrid

Kotrschal, Kurt M.

Kraus, Cornelila

Manser, Martha

Michiels, Nico

Moritz, Robin F. A.

Pahl, Mario

Penn, Dustin

Schaefer, Martin

Van Schaik, Carel P.

Schneider, Jutta M.

Schreiber, Isabella

Taborsky, Michael

Tautz, Jürgen

Trillmich, Fritz

Zhang, Shaowu

Springer

The study of animal behaviour has become one of the fastest growing b- logical disciplines in recent decades. This development can be easily - ferred, for example, from the steady increase in the total number of pub- cations on any aspect of animal behaviour, in particular also in journals with a more general readership (e. g. Nature, Proceedings of the Royal - ciety or Current Biology), the ever-increasing number of participants at - ternational conferences (e. g. IEC or ISBE), and from the growing numbers of students choosing courses in this field. This development has several causes, of which I find three particularly compelling. First, it is incre- ingly being appreciated that behaviour is the crucial level at which an in- vidual s genotype and phenotype interface with the environment. Rec- nising behaviour as the main mechanism animals employ to ascertain their homeostasis, growth, survival and reproduction therefore provides a deep understanding of organismal integration and adaptation. Second, the ast- ishing success of the study of animal behaviour also has importantly to do with the intellectual flexibility and methodological inter-disciplinarity - quired for comprehensive analyses of behaviour. Today, students of beh- iour are jacks-of-all-trades; importing, applying and improving methods from many neighbouring disciplines, such as molecular genetics, physi- ogy or micro-electronics, as well as concepts and theories from less ob- ous sources, such as economics or sociology, for example."

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