Guest guest Posted January 24, 2006 Report Share Posted January 24, 2006 Scientists are not typically disposed to wielding a word like "personality" when talking about animals. Doing so borders on the scientific heresy of anthropomorphism. And yet for a growing number of researchers from a broad range of disciplines - psychology, evolutionary biology and ecology, animal behavior and welfare - it is becoming increasingly difficult to avoid that term when trying to describe the variety of behaviors that they are now observing in an equally broad and expanding array of creatures, everything from nonhuman primates to hyenas and numerous species of birds to water striders and stickleback fish and, of course, giant Pacific octopuses. An excerpt from NYTimes The Animal Self CHARLES SIEBERT Published: January 22, 2006 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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