Animal Studies Bibliography
Linda Kalof, Seven Mattes, Amy Fitzgerald
Animal Studies Program, Michigan State University
Animals as Reflexive Thinkers
The citations in this category address the use of language and other methods of communication among animals, including cross-species cooperation, as well as human perceptions of animal mindedness.
This bibliography is an ongoing project of the Animal Studies Program at Michigan State University. We welcome additions and corrections to this bibliography by email: LKalof@msu.edu
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Alexander, Shana. 2000. The Astonishing Elephant. New York : Random House.
Allen, Colin and Marc A. Bekoff. 1999. Species of Mind: The Philosophy and Biology of Cognitive Ethology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Anderson, Stephen R. 2004. Doctor Dolittle's Delusion: Animals and the Uniqueness of Human Language. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Bahlig-Pieren, Z. and D.C. Turner. 1999. Anthropomorphic interpretations and ethological descriptions of dog and cat behavior by lay people. Anthrozoös 12(4): 205-210.
Balcombe, Jonathan P. 2006. Pleasurable Kingdom: Animals and the Nature of Feeling Good. London and New York: Macmillan.
Bateson, P.P.G. and Peter H. Klopfer (eds.). 1991. Perspectives in Ethology (vol. 9): Human Understanding and Animal Awareness. New York: Plenum.
Beck, Benjamin B. 1980. Animal Tool Behavior: The Use and Manufacture of Tools by Animals. New York: Garland STPM Pub.
Bekoff, Marc. 2000. The Smile of a Dolphin: Remarkable Accounts of Animal Emotions. 1st edition. New York: Discovery Books.
Bekoff Marc. 2002. Awareness: Animal reflections. Nature 419, 255-256.
Bekoff, Marc . 2002. Minding Animals: Awareness, Emotions, and Heart. New York: Oxford University Press.
Bekoff, Marc . 2003. Minding animals, minding Earth: Science, nature, kinship, and heart. Human Ecology Review 10.1:56-76.
Bekoff, Marc. 2007. The Emotional Lives of Animals: A Leading Scientist Explores Aimal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy - and Why They Matter. New World Library.
Bekoff, Marc, Colin Allen, Gordon M. Burghardt (eds.). 2002. The Cognitive Animal: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives on Animal Cognition. Cambridge, MA: MIT.
Bickerton, Derek. 1990. Language & Species. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Bolhuis, Johan J. and Luc-Alain Giraldeau (eds.) 2005. The Behavior of Animals: Mechanisms, Function, and Evolution. Blackwell Publishers.
Bradshaw, I.G.A. 2004. Not by bread alone: Symbolic loss, trauma, and recovery in elephant communities. Society and Animals 12 (2): 143-158.
Brandt, K. 2004. A language of their own: An interactionist approach to human-horse communication. Society and Animals 12 (4): 299-316.
Bright, M. 1984. Animal Language. London : BBC Publications.
Budiansky, Stephen. 1998. If a Lion Could Talk: Animal Intelligence and the Evolution of Consciousness. New York: Free Press.
Burghardt, Gordon M. 1985. Animal awareness: Current perceptions and historical perspective. American Psychologist 40(8): 905-919.
Burghardt, Gordon M. and Harold A. Herzog, Jr. 1980 . Beyond conspecifics: Is Brer Rabbit our brother? Bioscience 30(11): 763-768. SUMMARY
Byrne, R. 1995. The Thinking Ape: Evolutionary Origins of Intelligence. Oxford : Oxford University Press.
Candland , D. 1993. Feral Children and Clever Children: Reflections on Human Nature. Oxford : Oxford University Press.
Chamove A.S., O.J.E. Crawley-Hartrick and K.J. Stafford. 2002. Horse reactions to human attitudes and behavior. Anthrozoös 15(4): 323-331.
Collier-Baker, E. and J. Davis. 2002. Pretending and imagination in animals and children. Anthrozoös 15(4): 372-378.
Cox, Graham and Tony Ashford. 1998. Riddle me this: The craft and concept of animal Mind. Science, Technology, and Human Values 23(4): 425-438.
Crist, Eileen. 1999. Images of Animals: Anthropomorphism and Animal Mind. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Crist, Eileen. 1994. Review essay: Griffin , Kennedy, and Noske. Society and Animals 2(1): 77-88. SUMMARY
Darwin, Charles. 1872. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. London: J. Murray.
Daston, Lorraine and Gregg Mitman (eds.). 2005. Thinking with Animals: New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism. New York: Columbia University Press.
Dawkins, Marian Stamp. 1993. Through Our Eyes Only? The Search for Animal Consciousness. Oxford: Oxford UP.
De Luce, J. and H.T. Wilder (eds.). 1983. Language in Primates: Perspectives and Implications. New York: Springer.
de Waal, Frans. 1989. Food sharing and reciprocal obligations among chimpanzees. Journal of Human Evolution 18(5), 433-459.
de Waal, Frans B.M. 1996. Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
de Waal, Frans B.M. and Frans Lanting. 1998. Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape. University of California Press.
de Waal, Frans B.M. 2002. The Ape and the Sushi Master: Cultural Reflections by a Primatologist. London: Penguin.
de Waal, Frans B. M. and Peter L. Tyack (eds.) 2005. Animal Social Complexity: Intelligence, Culture, and Individualized Societies. Harvard University Press.
Eddy, Timothy J., Gordon G. Gallup Jr. and Daniel J. Povinelli. 1993. Attribution of cognitive states to animals: Anthropomorphism in comparative perspective. Journal of Social Issues 49(1): 121-132. SUMMARY
Fouts , Roger. 1997. Next of Kin: What Chimpanzees Have Taught Me About Who We Are . NY: William Morrow and Company, Inc.
Fouts, Roger and Stephen Tukel Mills. 1998. Next of Kin: My Conversations with Chimpanzees. Harper Paperbacks.
Friend, Tim. 2004. Animal Talk: Breaking the Codes of Animal Language. New York: Free Press.
Fudge, Erica. 2006. Brutal Reasoning: Animals, Rationality and Humanity in Early Modern England. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Gallistel, C.R. (ed.). 1992. Animal Cognition. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Gates, P. 1997. Animal Communication. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.
Gill, Jerry H. 1997. If a Chimpanzee Could Talk and Other Reflections on Language Acquisition. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press.
Goodall, Jane. 1971. In the Shadow of Man. London: Collins.
Goodall, Jane. 1991. Through a Window: Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of the Gombe. London: Pan Books.
Grandin, Temple. 2005. Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior. New York: Scribner.
Great Ape Project. 2003. The Great Ape Project Census: Recognition for the Uncounted. Portland, OR: Great Ape Project Books.
Griffin, Donald R. 1976. The Question of Animal Awareness. New York: Rockefeller University Press.
Griffin , Donald R. 1984. Animal Thinking. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Griffin, Donald R. 2001. Animal Minds: Beyond Cognition to Consciousness. Chicago: U of Chicago P (also published in 1992).
Grimm. 1959. Grimm's Fairy Tales. London : Routledge and Kegan Paul.
Halliday , T. and P. Slater ( eds. ). 1970. Communication. Oxford : Blackwell Scientific.
Hearne, Vicki. 1994. Animal Happiness. New York: HarperCollins.
Hearne, Vicki. 2007. Adam's Task. New York: Skyhorse Publishing.
Hills, Adelma. M. 1995. Empathy and belief in the mental experience of animals. Anthrozoös 8(3): 132-142.
Jamieson, Dale. 1998. Science, knowledge, and animal minds. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 98(1): 79-102.
Krause, Mark A. 1996. Biological continuity and great ape rights. Animal Law 2: 171-178.
Linden, Eugene. 1999. The Parrot's Lament and Other True Tales of Animal Intrigue, Intelligence, and Ingenuity. New York: Dutton.
Lyman-Henley, L.P. and T.B. Henley. 2000. Some thoughts on the relationship between behaviorism, comparative psychology and ethology. Anthrozoös 13(1): 15-21.
Masson, Jeffrey Moussaieff. 1997. Dogs Never Lie About Love: Reflections on the Emotional World of Dogs. New York: Crown Publishers.
Masson, Jeffrey Moussaieff and Susan McCarthy. 1995. When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals. New York: Delacorte Press.
Mertens, C. and D.C. Turner. 1988. Experimental analysis of human-cat interactions during first encounters. Anthrozoös 2: 83-97.
Morris, Desmond. 1967. The Naked Ape. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Morris P.H., A. Gale and S. Howe. 2002. The factor structure of horse personality. Anthrozoös 15(4): 300-322.
Morris, Paul, Margaret Fidler and Alan Costall. 2000. Beyond anecdotes: An empirical study of anthropomorphism. Society and Animals 8(2): 151-165.
Morton, Eugene S. 1992. Animal Talk: Science and the Voices of Nature. New York: Random House.
Nakajima S., K. Arimitsu and S. Nakajima. 2002. Estimation of animal intelligence by university students in Japan and the United States. Anthrozoös 15(3): 194-205.
Noy, Pinchas. 1986. A conversation about anthropomorphism. International Review of Psycho-Analysis 13: 143-161.
Patterson, Francine and Wendy Gordon. 1998. The case for the personhood of gorillas. In Linda Hogan, Deena Metzger, and Brenda Peterson (eds.) Intimate Nature: The Bond Between Women and Nature. New York : The Ballantine Publishing Group, 132-141.
Platt, Ron, et. al. 1995. Looking at the Great Apes. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT List Visual Arts Center.
Premark, D. 1986. Gavagai ! The Future of the Animal Language Controversy. Cambridge , Mass: MIT Press.
Rachels, J. 1990. Created From Animals: The Moral Implications of Darwinism. New York: Oxford University Press.
Rasmussen, Jeffrey Lee and D.W. Rajecki. 1995. Differences and similarities in humans' perceptions of the thinking and feeling of a dog and a boy. Society and Animals 3(2): 117-137(21).
Ristau, C. (ed.). 1990. Cognitive Ethology: The Minds of Other Animals. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Russell, Constance L. 1995. The social construction of orangutans: An ecotourist experience. Society and Animals 3(2): 151-170(20).
Russell, L.A. 2003. Decoding equine emotions. Society and Animals 11 (3): 265-266.
Sanders, Clinton. 1993. Understanding dogs: Caretakers' attributions of mindedness in canine- human relationships. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 22(2): 205-226. SUMMARY
Savage-Rumbaugh, Sue. 1991. Language learning in the bonobo: How and why they learn. In Norman A. Krasnegor (ed.), Biological and Behavioral Determinants of Language Development. 209-33. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum
Savage-Rumbaugh, Sue, Stuart G. Shanker and Talbot J. Taylor. 1998. Apes, Language and the Human Mind. New York: Oxford University Press.
Siegford, J.M., S. O. Walshaw, P. Brunner, et al. 2003. Validation of a temperament test for domestic cats. Anthrozoös 16 (4): 332-351.
Sims, V.K. and M.G. Chin. 2002. Responsiveness and perceived intelligence as predictors of speech addressed to cats. Anthrozoös 15(2): 166-177.
Walker, Stephen. 1982. Animal Thought. London and Boston: Routledge and K. Paul.
Wrangham, Richard W., W.C. McGrew, Frans de Waal, and Paul G. Heltne. 1996. Chimpanzee Cultures. Harvard University Press.
Zentall, Thomas R. 1999. Animal cognition: The bridge between animal learning and human cognition. Psychological Science 10(3): 206-8.
