Mind in Animals

'Theory of mind' in animals: ways to make progress

Whether any non-human animal can attribute mental states to others remains the subject of extensive debate. This despite the fact that several species have behaved as if they have a ‘theory of mind’ in various behavioral tasks. In this paper, we review the reasons of skeptics for their doubts: That existing experimental setups cannot distinguish between ‘mind readers’ and ‘behavior readers’, th...

Scorpion Venom Pisoning in Experimental Animals

Reckoning with the beast. Animals, pain, and humanity in the Victorian mind

KLAUS MAURICE and OTTO MAYR (editors), The clockwork universe. German clocks and automata 1550-1650, New York, Neale Watson Academic Publications, 1980, 4to, pp. ix, 322, illus., $55.00 + $2.00 postage. Academics teaching the history of science could do worse than spend more time in museums with their students. That, at least, would be so if all exhibitions were of the standard of the display o...

Rudiments of mind: Insights through the chick model on number and space cognition in animals

Studies on human infants, focused on the ontogenetic origins of knowledge, have provided evidence for a small set of separable systems of core knowledge dealing with the representation of objects, number, and space. We investigated core knowledge systems from a comparative perspective, making use of the domestic chick as a model system, and filial imprinting as a key to animal mind. Here, we di...

Morphine and Angiogenesis in Hypertensive Animals