Are You Smarter Than A Chimpanzee: Test yourself against the amazing minds of animals

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Animal science is bizarre and wonderful. At the extreme end of zoology, psychologists are designing personality tests for dogs and logic problems for pigeons. They're giving fish spatial reasoning problems and asking cockatoos to keep a beat.

Now, through dozens of interactive puzzles, IQ tests and quizzes, Are You Smarter Than a Chimpanzee lets you test yourself against the best nature has to offer. So: are you more than a match for a marmoset Or a bit of a birdbrain

Based on real, cutting-edge science and debunking common myths about animals, Are You Smarter Than a Chimpanzee will make you question your assumptions about our place in the animal kingdom - and, finally, explain the real difference between dog-people and cat-people.

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Highly recommended! Enormously fun, full of fascinating oddities and genuinely thought-provoking -- Alex Boese, author of Elephants on Acid
Delightful ... Ambridge uses a great deal of British wit to further our understanding of who we are by fleshing out our connections to other inhabitants of the animal kingdom -- Tom Gilovich, author of The Wisest One In The Room
Ambridge has a trickster's charm of "How did he do that" presentation and a stage magician's "Hey presto!" delight in revelation * The Times *
Insightful and humorous ... one of the most interesting books we've read all year * How It Works *

Author Bio

Ben Ambridge is Reader in Psychology at the University of Liverpool and the ESRC International Centre for Language and Communicative Development (LuCiD). He is a recipient of the Guardian-Wellcome Science Writing Prize and his first book Psy-Q: A Mind-Bending Miscellany of Everyday Psychology was a Sunday Times Book of the Year and has been translated into a dozen languages. Ben writes on psychology for the Guardian and the Big Issue, and his TEDtalk on The Top 10 Myths of Psychology has been viewed over 2 million times. He lives in Sale, Greater Manchester.