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How Animals Think and Feel: An Introduction to Non-Human Psychology. By Ken Cheng. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood, 2016. 294 p. Acid free $46.40 (ISBN 978-14408-3714-2). E-book available (978-1-4408-3715-9), call for pricing.
This affordable single-volume work is the first book by Dr. Ken Cheng of McQuarie University, who has published many journal articles on animal behavior on a variety of species in the past thirty years. Cheng's experience as an accomplished researcher and professor is evident in his readable, well-researched, and entertaining writing. How Animals Think and Feel features nine chapters that focus on topics related to animal cognition and emotions. In addition, there are nine case studies of animals that reflect a diverse representation of animals, from jumping spiders to apes, with a concluding chapter putting human cognition and emotion into the context of animal behavior. A key feature of this book are the debates featured in some...