How Monkeys See the World Inside the Mind of Another Species
by Dorothy L. Cheney and Robert M. Seyfarth
University of Chicago Press, 1990
Cloth: 978-0-226-10245-0 | Paper: 978-0-226-10246-7 | Electronic: 978-0-226-21852-6
DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226218526.001.0001
ABOUT THIS BOOKTABLE OF CONTENTS

ABOUT THIS BOOK

Cheney and Seyfarth enter the minds of vervet monkeys and other primates to explore the nature of primate intelligence and the evolution of cognition.

"This reviewer had to be restrained from stopping people in the street to urge them to read it: They would learn something of the way science is done, something about how monkeys see their world, and something about themselves, the mental models they inhabit."—Roger Lewin, Washington Post Book World

"A fascinating intellectual odyssey and a superb summary of where science stands."—Geoffrey Cowley, Newsweek

"A once-in-the-history-of-science enterprise."—Duane M. Rumbaugh, Quarterly Review of Biology

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

One. What is it Like to Be A Monkey?

Two. Social Behavior

Three. Social Knowledge

Four. Vocal Communication

Five. What the Vocalizations of Monkeys Mean

Six. Summarizing the Mental Representations of Vocalizations and Social Relationships

Seven. Deception

Eight. Attribution

Nine. Social and Nonsocial Intelligence

Ten. How Monkeys See the World

Appendix

References

Index