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Intelligence in Plants and Animals

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Nature, Gardens & Animals

Intelligence in Plants and Animals

Thomas George Gentry

543 pages~10 hr 49 min read54 chapters$4.99
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Plants that feed on insects, slime-animals that hunt, earthworms that shaped history, hermit-crabs choosing shells: Thomas Gentry gathers cases where life seems to reason. His chapters roam from lasso-throwing predators to funnel-web builders, asking how much mind hides in humble bodies. A curious, wide-ranging tour of animal and plant cleverness. Reconsider who is really thinking.

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54 chapters

  1. 1INTELLIGENCE IN PLANTS AND ANIMALS
  2. 2PREFACE.
  3. 3CONTENTS
  4. 4LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
  5. 5FULL PAGE PLATES.
  6. 6LIFE AND ITS CONDITIONS.
  7. 7PLANTS THAT FEED ON INSECTS.
  8. 8SLIME-ANIMALS.
  9. 9PRIMITIVE LASSO-THROWERS.
  10. 10FIVE-FINGERED JACK ON THE OYSTER.
  11. 11EARTH-WORMS IN HISTORY.
  12. 12FIDDLER- AND HERMIT-CRABS.
  13. 13FUNNEL-WEB BUILDER.
  14. 14BOOK-LOVERS.
  15. 15YOU-EE-UP.
  16. 16TOWER-BUILDING CICADA.
  17. 17HONEY-DEW.
  18. 18MILCH-COWS OF THE ANTS.

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