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Bezig met laden... Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know (editie 2010)door Alexandra Horowitz (Auteur)
Informatie over het werkInside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know door Alexandra Horowitz
  
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 “Though they have inherited some aversion to staring too long at eyes, dogs seem to be predisposed to inspect our faces for information, for reassurance, for guidance.” They are staring, soulfully, into our umwelts. It seems only right that we try a little harder to reciprocate, and Horowitz’s book is a good step in that direction. But she can be a bit coy and overly stylish in her attempt not to sound too scientific, and to the particular choir to which she is preaching, much of her material will be familiar. In that same vein, the tone of the book is sometimes baffling — an almost polemical insistence on the value of dogs, as if they’d long been neglected by world opinion. But then Horowitz will drop in some lovely observation, some unlikely study, some odd detail that causes one’s dog-loving heart to flutter with astonishment and gratitude. Onderscheidingen
What do dogs know? How do they think? The answers will surprise and delight you as Alexandra Horowitz, a cognitive scientist, explains how dogs perceive their daily worlds, each other, and that other quirky animal, the human. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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The way dogs see or smell, how they relate to other dogs and to you, some of that was interesting. But overall, I thought there was too much stuff in there, and much of that stuff was not well written, so that you tripped over contradictions or parts that didn't make sense.
The best part might have been the epigraph, a quote from Groucho that we all know...
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
If I were to start all over again, I'd skip more and glean from the remainder. (