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Becoming a Tiger: The Education of an Animal Child

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by Susan McCarthy


  nonvocal communication, tail-drinking and, 26

  oblique learning and, 15

  social intelligence and, 331

  backward conditioning, 10–11

  bait-fishing, 215–16

  Balda, Russell, 318

  Baptista, Luis, 98, 100, 104

  Barash, David, 107

  Barry, Dave, 197n

  bats

  communication and, 92, 105–6

  imprinting and, 63

  learning to fly, 295–96

  learning predation skills, 159

  midwifery and, 286–87

  bears

  adoption of cubs by, 283

  humans and, 199, 260

  learning to climb, 37

  learning predation skills, 162–63

  learning what to eat, 148

  moose learns to fear, 197–98

  playing and, 47–48

  teach young to hunt, 296

  Beau Geste hypothesis, 110

  beavers, 201

  Bekoff, Marc, 47, 52–53, 54

  Berger, Joel, 197, 198

  Berry, Robert, 78–79 “best-of-N” strategy, 275, 276

  Biben, Maxeen, 54

  birds. See also specific types

  dialects and, 100

  fear of bird flying overhead, 185–86

  female singing in, 99

  imitation and, 102–3, 108

  imprinting and, 60

  intelligence of, 342–43

  language and, vs. apes, 135

  learn to fly, 41–44

  learn which hawks are scariest, 190–91

  learn wrong songs, 100

  mobbing by, 189–90

  nest-building by, 240–43

  nest parasitism and, 80–81

  new neurons and songs, 100

  parenting by, and age, 290–91

  recognize own young, 81–82

  rescue centers for, 41

  song learning, 92, 95–99

  territorial mimicry in, 110

  vocal communication and, 92

  vocal imitation and, 18

  birth, 285–87

  Black, Jeffrey, 275

  blackbird, 117, 189–90, 216

  Blaisdell, Frank, 45

  Blumstein, Daniel, 194

  Boccia, Maria, 336–37

  Boesch, Christophe, 120–21, 136, 224, 247n, 272, 298–99, 350

  Boesch, Hedwige, 120

  Boinski, researcher, 162

  Bond, Alan, 49–50, 53, 154

  bonobo

  artificial symbols and, 132–34

  communications and, 122

  gestures and, 138–39

  learning through being told, 29–30

  lets others borrow baby, 287

  mirror test and, 336, 337–38

  nest-building by, 239–40

  playing with dolls, 56

  pointing and, 138

  social intelligence and, 330–32

  stone tools made by, 227–28

  tool use by, 219–20

  weaning young, 289

  Borgia, Gerald, 251

  Born Free (Adamson and Adamson), 199

  Boughman, Janette Wenrick, 105–6

  Bouvier, Jérome, 301

  bowerbird, 250–52, 343

  Box, Hilary, 15

  Boysen, Sarah, 322–23, 323

  brain size, 328–29

  Breland, Keller, 9–10

  Breland, Marian, 9–10

  Brindamour, Binti, 130

  Brown, Eleanor, 102

  Bshary, Redouan, 344, 345

  budgies. See parakeets buffalo, 193, 262–64

  buntings, indigo, 325

  Burger, Joanna, 12

  Burghardt, Gordon, 57–58

  Burton, Maurice, 14, 117, 296–97

  bush-shrike, 107

  bustards, 195–96

  butterfly fishes, 192

  Byers, John, 47, 343–44

  Byrne, Jennifer, 178

  Byrne, Richard, 17, 18, 178, 218, 303n, 314, 315, 329, 330

  Caldwell, D. K., 117

  Caldwell, M. C., 117

  Cambefort, J. P., 212

  Campbell, A.G., 109

  Canadian Journal of Zoology, 111, 112

  canaries, 96, 100

  Cant, John, 39, 40

  cardinals, 99

  Caro, T. M., 293

  Carter, Janis, 38–39, 145, 148, 158

  catbird, 189

  categorization, 317

  catfish, 6, 198–99

  cats, 17, 282

  climbing down trees, 40

  eating grass, 152

  imitation and, 18–19

  mirror and, 336

  predation skills, 165–68

  prey selection and, 169–70

  social play and, 52

  vocal communication and, 115–16

  Chantek (orangutan), 23, 52, 57, 129–30, 137–38, 221–22, 271, 338

  Chapais, Bernard, 333

  Chapman, Graeme, 66–69

  Chappuis, Claude, 106

  Charcot, Jean, 59

  cheetah, 76, 166–68, 192–93, 293

  Cheney, Dorothy, 116, 318, 332

  chick

  fear of predators in, 185

  learning to forage, 2

  learning about water, 32

  mother’s voice and, 93

  pecking and aim in, 13–14

  running with large food, 14

  chickadees. See tits

  chicken

  trained to dance, 9, 10, 11

  social intelligence of, 343

  chimpanzees

  aggression level of, 257–58

  American Sign Language and, 127–29, 131–32

  artificial symbols and, 132–35

  clinging by, 35–36

  coalitions of female, 257–58

  communication and, 91

  comparing cultures of, 266–68

  conditions favoring culture in, 248–49

  crawling, 37

  dialects and, 101

  disciplining of young by, 297

  drumming and, 120–121

  enculturation and, 271–72

  enriched environment and intelligence in, 341–42

  fear of snakes in, 187–88

  gestures and, 138–39

  imitation and, 23

  innovations by, 212

  language and, in wild, 136

  learning as adult, 244

  learning to climb, 38–39

  learning to walk, 36

  learning what to eat, 148

  learning where to find food, 158

  manipulation of others by, 331–32

  mate selection and age and, 291–92

  medicinal plants and, 152, 153

  mirrors and, 336, 337

  nest-building by, 239–40

  numerical skills of, 322–23

  play with dolls, 56

  personality and, 324

  poor mothering skills of, in wild, 309–10

  rehabilitation of, 145, 201, 267–68

  safety of young and, 289–90

  sex lives of, 279–80

  shoes used by, 226

  smiling and play-faces in, 35

  speech and, 123–24

  tools and, 222–27

  weaning young, 288–89

  Choudhury, Sharmila, 275

  chough, 55, 161

  choz-choz, 47

  cichlids, 234

  Clarence (house sparrow), 15, 102–3, 243–44, 308

  cleaner fish, 345

  Clever as a Fox (Yoerg), 318

  closed program, 3–5

  coaching, 293, 294

  cobra, 188–89

  cockatiels, 277

  cockatoo, 66–70, 232–33

  Cody (orangutan), 33, 36–37, 60, 124–25

  cognition theory, 270, 344

  cognitive map, 324–25, 329

  “cognitive structures,” 249

  Collet, Anne, 200

  Collias, Elsie, 241, 243

  Collias,
Nicholas, 241, 243

  communication, 91–140

  apes and speech, 123–25

  artificial symbol systems and, 132–35

  gestures, 138–39

  nonvocal, 120–22

  parrots and speech, 126–27

  pointing, 137–38

  sign language and, 127–32

  translation and, 140

  vocal, 91–119

  competitors, 198–99

  concept learning, 11–12, 317

  conditioning, 6–7, 347

  imitating vs., 18–19

  operant, 8–10

  Pavlovian, 6–8

  condors, California, 31, 73–74, 145–46, 158, 268–69, 280–81

  conservative learning, 14

  cooperative hunting, 245–46, 342–45

  copycatting, 18–19

  Corbett, Jim, 210

  Corbett, Laurie, 196

  Corbo, Margarete Sigl, 41, 107

  cormorant, double-crested, 342

  correlation-learning device, 6

  Coss, Richard, 186

  cowbird, 80, 81, 83–84

  Coyote, Martha, 114

  coyotes, 54

  crake, 276–77

  crane

  sandhill, 73, 147

  whooping, 42, 73, 264–65, 267, 290

  crawling, 36–37

  critical or sensitive periods, 61, 95–97, 199

  crocodile, 326

  cross-fostering, 66–69, 79–80, 85–88

  crows, 101–2, 110, 235–37, 311–12

  Cuckoos, Cowbirds and Other Cheats (Davies), 84–85

  cuckoos, 80–81, 84–85

  culture

  baboons and male-female relations and, 261–62

  bowerbird and, 250–52

  buffalo voting posture and, 262–64

  chimpanzee and, 257–58, 266–68

  conditions favoring, 248–49

  condors and, 268–69

  debate over animals and, 246–47

  defined, 247

  elders pass on, to group, 247–48

  enculturation and, 271–72

  fads and, 254–55

  landscape information and, 262

  learning and, 349

  learning as essence of, 246–47

  learning new social behavior and, 255–56

  lions and, 260–61

  macaque reconciliation and, 256–57

  macaque stone handling and, 252–54

  male macaques caring for young and, 258–59

  orangutans and rehabilitation and, 269–71

  reindeer and caribou migration and, 265–66

  social gaffs and, 259–60

  special calls and, 249–50

  whooping crane migration and, 264–65

  in wild, 272

  Curio, Eberhard, 189

  curiosity, 317, 325–27

  curlews, 143

  damselfish, 94, 192, 198

  Davies, N. B., 84, 160

  deception, 335

  deer, 34–35, 136

  degu, 47

  dialects, 100–102

  Diamond, Adele, 321

  Diamond, Jared, 248, 251–52

  Diamond, Judy, 49–50, 53, 154

  dingoes, 54, 156–57, 196

  dippers, 159–60

  disciplining of young, 289, 296–97

  Distance Calls, 96

  distraction displays, 203–5

  dogs, 1–2

  attacking snake, 188–89

  barking, as superstition, 314

  distraction displays and, 204–5

  eating grass, 152

  emulation and, 27

  herding by, 304, 305

  imitation and, 19

  imprinting and community and sheepdogs, 64–65

  mirror and, 336

  narcotics sniffing training, 25

  pointing and, 137

  problem solving and, 317

  social play and, 52

  training of, by humans, 304–5

  understanding of humans by, 139–40

  dolls, 56–57

  dolphins

  brains of, 328

  bubbles, playing with, 50–51

  conditioning and, 29

  cooperation of, with fishermen, 245–46

  cross-foster pilot whale, 80

  deception and, 335

  disciplining of young by, 297

  fads of, 254

  humans and, 201–2

  imitation and, 20–21

  intelligence of, 343

  learns to train trainer, 307

  “lucky corners” and, 314

  learn predation skills, 163

  learn to breathe at surface, 45

  midwifery and, 286

  mirror test and, 340

  mobbing of predator by, 192

  plays keep-away, 55

  pointing and, 139

  signature whistles of, 117–19

  taught to invent tricks, 29

  tools used by, 51, 233–34

  trained to herd sharks, 305–6

  vocal communication and, 92, 104–5

  domains, 318–20

  double-imprinting, 70

  Douglas-Hamilton, Dudu, 85, 86

  Douglas-Hamilton, Saba, 85, 86

  drumming, 120, 232–33

  Dublin, Holly, 153

  ducks, 48, 62, 204, 282–83

  duets, 113–14

  Dunbar, Robin, 330

  Dunn, Euan, 159

  Durden, Ed, 44, 87–89

  Durden, Kent, 44, 87–89

  eagles, 1, 342

  adoption by, 283–84

 

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