Resources for learning about animal cognition

Here is a list of videos and popular psychology books on animal cognition and evolution:

Videos:

• Chimp memory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK-dtUTb8ME

  • Bear in mind that this research has been criticised, as later work found that humans are able to perform at the same level as chimps if they are given the same amount of training.

• Chimp theory of mind (ability to understand mental states): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s0dO_h7q7Q

• Pigeon problem-solving (Monty Hall problem): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggDQXlinbME&t=118s

• Scrub jay memory and deception: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmpUoGKyyto

• Bird brain structure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H59GcPgXXv4

• Bee social learning and problem-solving: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJyHeUaSMVw

• Animal consciousness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVQIrVPkEM8

Books:

• Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness, by Peter Godfrey-Smith.

• A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist’s Unconventional Life Among the Baboons, by Robert Sapolsky.

• Gorillas in the Mist, by Dian Fossey.

• The Mentality of Apes, by Wolfgang Köhler.

• Bird Brain: An Exploration of Avian Intelligence by Nathan Emery.