Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

A New York Times Bestseller: “Astonishing . . . has the makings of a classic—and one fantastic read.”—PeopleWhat separates your mind from an animal’s? Maybe you think it’s your ability to design tools, your sense of self, or your grasp of past and future—all traits that have helped us define ourselves as the planet’s preeminent species. But in recent decades, these claims have eroded, or even been disproven outright, by a revolution in the study of animal cognition. Take the way octopuses use…