By Vinciane Despret
University of Minnesota Press, $30
Do animals have a sense of prestige? Do birds make art? Do animals have a sense of humor? Author Vinciane Despret, associate professor of philosophy at University of Liege and Free University of Brussels, asks 26 questions that stretch our preconceived ideas about what animals do, what they think, and what they want. By exploring incredible and funny animal adventures and their involvement with farmers, zookeepers, researchers, handlers and others, Despret argues that the separation between human and animal behaviorisms don’t exist.—Breana Roy
