Experiencing animal minds : an anthology of animal-human encounters / edited by Julie A. Smith and Robert W. Mitchell.

New York : Columbia University Press, [2012], ©2012.

vii, 380 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Engaging animal minds : matters of perspective / Robert W. Mitchell and Julie A. Smith -- The mental life of chickens as observed through their social relationships / Karen Davis -- Tangible affiliations : photographic representations of touch between human and animal companions / Julia Schlosser -- Beaver voices : grey owl and interspecies communication / Albert Braz -- The historical animal mind : "sagacity" in nineteenth-century Britain / Rob Boddice -- Science of the monkey mind : primate penchants and human pursuits / Sara Waller -- Can animals make "art"? Popular and scientific discourses about expressivity and cognition in primates / Jane C. Desmond -- Toward a privileging of the nonverbal : communication, corporeal synchronicity, and transcendence in humans and horses / Gala Argent -- Thinking like a whale : interdisciplinary methods for the study of human-animal interactions / Traci Warkentin -- The meaning of "energy" in Cesar Millan's discourse on dogs / Julie A. Smith -- Inner experience as perception(like) with attitude / Robert W. Mitchell

The voice of the living : becoming-artistic and the creaturely refrain in D.H. Lawrence's "Tortoise shout" / Carrie Rohman -- Unique attributes of the elephant mind : perspectives on the human mind / Benjamin L. Hart and Lynette A. Hart -- Brains, bodies, and minds : against a hierarchy of animal faculties / David Dillard-Wright -- Rethinking the cognitive abilities of animals / Gary Steiner -- Assessing evidence for animal consciousness : the question of episodic memory / Paula Droege -- What are animals conscious of? / Alain Morin -- Chimpanzees attribute beliefs? A new approach to answering an old nettled question / Robert W. Lurz -- Minding the animal in contemporary art / Jessica Ulrich -- Popular beliefs and understanding of the dolphin mind / Jessica Sickler, John Fraser, and Diana Reiss -- Perceiving the minds of animals : sociological warfare, the social imaginary, and mediated representations of animals shaping human understandings of animals / Brian M. Lowe -- Animal ethics and animals' minds : reflections / Julie A. Smith and Robert W. Mitchell.