A review by lindarlissima
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans de Waal

4.0

The title is pretty lame but the book was actually very interesting. He talks about the various experiments done to explore animal cognition, separating it into categories very systematically. Some parts dragged a bit because the “debate” seemed so obvious to me. Of course animals plan for the future! Of course they can learn stuff! Of course they communicate! But the experiments were really interesting and his writing flowed very well. I also like when reading non-fiction when I can get a sense of the humanity of the writer and this guy came off as a very nice, sincere, thorough guy.