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The increasing realization among behaviorists and psychologists is that many animals learn by observation as members of social systems. Such settings contribute to the formation of culture. This book combines the knowledge of two groups of scientists with different backgrounds to establish a working consensus for future research. The book is divided into two major sections, with contributions by a well-known, international, and interdisciplinary team which integrates these growing areas of inquiry.

Animal psychology and neurophysiology --- Zoology --- Apprentissage chez les animaux --- Comportement social des animaux --- Imitation

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Peur, joie, amour, colère... Qui n'a un jour constaté chez son animal favori la manifestation d'une émotion ou d'un sentiment ? Pourtant une large frange de la communauté scientifique continue de nier l'évidence. Cet ouvrage montre, au contraire, toute la richesse de la vie émotionnelle des animaux, que Charles Darwin, le théoricien de l'évolution des espèces, avait lui-même constatée. Posant la question du comportement de l'homme vis-à-vis de son frère animal, il propose des portraits inoubliables : de l'éléphant héroïque qui sauve un bébé rhinocéros à un gorille mélomane qui ne veut pas manquer Pavarotti à la télévision, en passant par un jeune épaulard qui se venge d'un plongeur importun en le maintenant sous l'eau. Provocateur, mais déjà considéré sur le plan international comme le livre-clé sur la condition animale, Quand les éléphants pleurent devrait radicalement bouleverser nos consciences. Car, dans un monde où se pratiquent sans remords les tortures (gavage, élevage en batterie, vivisection, manipulations génétiques...) ou autres aberrations qui menèrent à la "vache folle", il devient vital de rappeler que le mot animal remonte au latin anima, c'est-à-dire "l'âme".

Emotions in animals. --- Social behavior in animals. --- Animal behavior. --- Émotions --- Comportement social des animaux. --- Comportement animal. --- Chez les animaux.

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"In social animals, perturbations may trigger specific behavioural responses with consequences for dispersal and complex population dynamics. Perturbations raise the need for information gathering in order to reduce uncertainty and increase resilience. Updated information is then shared within the group and social behaviours emerge as a self-organized process. This social information factoralizes with the size of the group, and it is finally used for making crucial decisions about, for instance, when to leave the patch and where to go. Indeed, evolution has favoured philopatry over dispersal, and this trade-off is challenged by perturbations. When perturbations accumulate over time, they may decrease the suitability of the patch and erode the philopatric state until crossing a tipping point, beyond which most individuals decide to disperse to better areas. Initially, the decision to disperse is led by a few individuals, and this decision is copied by the rest of the group in an autocatalytic way. This feedback process of social copying is termed runaway dispersal. Furthermore, social copying enhances the evolution of cultural and technological innovation, which may cause additional non-linearities for population dynamics. Social information gathering and social copying have also occurred in human evolution, especially after perturbations such as climate extremes and warfare. In summary, social feedback processes cause non-linear population dynamics including hysteresis and critical transitions (from philopatry to patch collapses and invasions), which emerge from the collective behaviour of large ensembles of individuals"--

Population biology. --- Animal populations. --- Social behavior in animals. --- Biologie des populations --- Animaux --- Comportement social des animaux --- Populations --- Animal populations

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Animal Communication. --- Animal Communication --- Animal communication. --- Animal behavior. --- Social behavior in animals. --- Comportement social des animaux. --- Comportement animal. --- Évolution du comportement. --- Communication animale.

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Sommes-nous sur terre, comme on l'affirme si souvent, dans le seul but de servir notre propre survie et nos intérêts personnels ? Dans ce livre stimulant, Frans de Waal remet magistralement en cause le comportement égoïste et l'esprit de compétition souvent présentés comme conformes aux théories de l'évolution mais en réalité bien moins naturels que le don d'empathie, qui n'est pas l'apanage exclusif des humains. Nourri d'histoires animales aussi extraordinaires qu'émouvantes, L'Age de l'empathie, en mettant la coopération au coeur de l'évolution des espèces, ouvre des perspectives passionnantes sur la nécessaire solidarité dans nos sociétés.

Comportement social des animaux. --- Empathie. --- Éthologie. --- Empathy. --- Social behavior in animals. --- Emotions. --- Emotions in animals. --- Helping behavior. --- Altruistic behavior in animals. --- Éthologie.