Examines the brains of such species as bird, insects, worms, monkey, dogs, cats, and human brains, and describes how they work, their size, and how many cells they have.
When an old friend of her father's drops off an unusually intelligent chimpanzee at their apartment in the middle of the night with strict orders to keep the chimp a secret, twelve-year-old Rachel wants to know what the big mystery is all about.
Simple text and photographs describe the behaviors and habits of both Asian and African elephants, how they communicate with one another, work, and solve problems.
Explores modern efforts to research and understand animal intelligence and examines what modern experiments and discoveries tell us about various animals' capacity to use tools, communicate, remember data, and learn language. Features full-color photographs throughout.
