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What It's Like to Be a Dog

And Other Adventures in Animal Neuroscience

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What It's Like to Be a Dog

By: Gregory Berns
Narrated by: Joe Hempel
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What is it like to be a dog? A bat? Or a dolphin? To find out, neuroscientist Gregory Berns and his team began with a radical step: they taught dogs to go into an MRI scanner - completely awake. They discovered what makes dogs individuals with varying capacities for self-control, different value systems, and a complex understanding of human speech. And dogs were just the beginning.

In What It's Like to Be a Dog, Berns explores the fascinating inner lives of wild animals from dolphins and sea lions to the extinct Tasmanian tiger. Much as Silent Spring transformed how we thought about the environment, so What It's Like to Be a Dog will fundamentally reshape how we think about - and treat - animals. Groundbreaking and deeply humane, it is essential listening for animal lovers of all stripes.

©2017 Gregory Berns (P)2017 Tantor Animals Biological Sciences Outdoors & Nature Science

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"An impressive overview of modern neurology and the still-unanswered issues raised by our treatment of our fellow living creatures." ( Kirkus)
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Interesting and quite fascinating research into dog behaviour,

However, it was a bit long winded. Regarding performance, I really don’t like an American accent so thus chaps voice got a bit irritating after a while.

Interesting, but a bit long winded

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Having listened to the preview I had high hopes about finding out lots of insights about doggy behaviour but this is more of a scientific view on the study of brains.
Quite interesting, but honestly not what I was hoping for.

Not so much about dogs as animal brains

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Can’t recommend this highly enough! I was expecting it to be more focused around dogs, but absolutely loved the information about marine mammals and marsupials. Would be of interest to those who enjoyed Other Minds by Peter Godfrey Smith or anyone interested in science, neuroscience, animals or ethics

One of the most interesting books I have ever read

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