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This volume includes twelve novel empirical papers focusing on the behaviour and cognition of both captive and wild bonobos ( Pan paniscus ). As our species less known closest relative, the bonobo has gone from being little studied to increasingly popular as a species of focus over the past decade. Overall this volume demonstrates how anyone interested in understanding humans or chimpanzees must also know bonobos. Bonobos are not only equal to chimpanzees as our relatives, but they are also unique. The majority of papers in this volume show that whether you are interested in the evolution of culture and tool use, social relationships and sharing or foraging ecology and cognition, bonobos have a major contribution to make. Four papers provide further evidence that the behaviour and psychology of bonobo females is radically different from that observed in chimpanzees. Foraging behaviour and cognition of bonobos is the focus of three papers that each show important ways that bonobos spatial cognition differs remarkably from chimpanzees. Two papers are relevant to solving the puzzle of why bonobos are expert extractive foragers in captivity but have never been seen using tools to obtain food in the wild. The articles presented in this volume are previously published in a Special Issue of Behaviour , Volume 152, Parts 3-4 (March 2015).

Bonobo --- Cognition in animals. --- Behavior. --- Animal cognition --- Animal intelligence --- Life Sciences

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Can animals experience emotions? Do they have a life story? The INRA addressed these questions by performing a collective scientific assessment of animal consciousness. This multidisciplinary evaluation, in which a vast body of behavioral, cognitive and neurobiological studies is analyzed, tends to show the existence of conscious thought processes in animals.

Consciousness in animals --- Cognition in animals --- Conscience chez les animaux. --- Cognition chez les animaux. --- Animaux --- Moeurs et comportement. --- Conscience animale. --- Cognition animale. --- Animal behaviour --- Animal behavior. --- Comportement animal. --- élevage --- éthique --- éthologie

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From an evolutionary perspective, understanding chimpanzees offers a way of understanding the basis of human nature. This book on cognitive development in chimpanzees is the first of its kind to focus on infants reared by their own mothers within a natural setting, illustrating various aspects of chimpanzee cognition and the developmental changes that accompany them. The subjects of this book are chimpanzees of three generations inhabiting an enriched environment as well as a wild community in West Africa; and phenomena such as face recognition, concept formation, object manipulation, tool manufacture and use, decision making, learning, communication, self-awareness, intentionality, understanding others’ minds, cooperation, deception, altruism, and reciprocity observed within these groups are reported herein. Unique approaches both in the field and in the laboratory go hand in hand to illustrate the cognitive world of our closest living evolutionary relatives.

Chimpanzees --- Cognition in animals. --- Psychology, Comparative. --- Human evolution. --- Psychology. --- Behavior. --- Development. --- Evolution (Biology) --- Physical anthropology --- Evolutionary psychology --- Human beings --- Behavior, Comparative --- Comparative behavior --- Comparative psychology --- Ethology, Comparative --- Intelligence of animals --- Zoology --- Animal behavior --- Animal intelligence --- Animal psychology --- Human behavior --- Instinct --- Animal cognition --- Chimpanzee --- Chimp --- Common chimpanzee --- Pan troglodytes --- Robust chimpanzee --- Pan (Mammals) --- Origin --- Zoology. --- Animal behavior. --- Consciousness. --- Behavioral Sciences. --- Cognitive Psychology. --- Apperception --- Mind and body --- Perception --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- Spirit --- Self --- Animals --- Animals, Habits and behavior of --- Behavior, Animal --- Ethology --- Ethologists --- Psychology, Comparative --- Biology --- Natural history --- Behavior --- Behavioral sciences. --- Cognitive psychology. --- Psychology, Cognitive --- Cognitive science