Through Our Eyes Only?

• What goes on inside the minds of other animals? Do they have thoughts and feelings like our own? Exciting new evidence in animal behaviour points to the existence of higher consciousness in some species.
• Wild vervet monkeys seem to `know' which members of their group are reliable messengers of danger and which commonly cry wolf; vampire bats often give food to starving companions - but only to those who have helped tham in the past; even rats have an elementary grasp of mathematics!
• Dawkins argues that the idea of consciousness in other species has progressed from a vague possibility to a plausible, scientifically respectable view.
• A lively exploration of one of the great biological mysteries of our time - accessible to the general reader (particularly pet-owners!)

Readership: This book will be of interest to the general public and academic readers. It is aimed at anyone who has ever wondered about the phenomenon of conscious experience in humans and other animals.

Marian Stamp Dawkins, Fellow, Somerville College, Oxford

"these accounts....are never less than thought-provoking." - New Scientist

Preface
Chapter 1: Through your eyes only?
Chapter 2: Miss Halsey moves her foot
Chapter 3: Bees do it
Chapter 4: Thinking ahead
Chapter 5: Feeling our way
Chapter 6: Balance of evidence
Further reading
Acknowledgements
Index