TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hearne, Vicki
AU  - Hearne, Vicki,  
AU  - McCaig, Donald; 
AU  - Fowler, Karen Joy
TI  - Adam's Task : : Calling Animals by Name
SN  - 9781510704299
U1  - 636.088 HEA 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - La Vergne 
PB  - : Skyhorse Publishing, 
KW  - Agriculture
KW  - Animal husbandry
KW  - Human-animal communication
KW  - Animal training
KW  - Domestic animals -- Behavior
KW  - SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- General
N1  - Front Cover; Half-Title Page; Dedication; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword by Karen Joy Fowler; Introduction by Donald McCaig; Preface to the 1994 Edition; 1. By Way of Explanation; 2. A Walk with Washoe: How Far Can We Go?; 3. How to Say "Fetch!"; 4. Tracking Dogs, Sensitive Horses and the Traces of Speech; 5. Crazy Horses; 6. Horses in Partnership with Time; 7. Calling Animals by Name; 8. The Sound of Kindness; 9. Lo the American (Pit) Bull Terrier; 10. What It Is about Cats; 11. Rights, Autism and the Rougher Magics; Afterword
N2  - A groundbreaking meditation on our human-animal relationships and the moral code that binds it. Adam's Task, Vicki Hearne's innovative masterpiece on animal training, brings our perennial discussion of the human-animal bond to a whole new metaphysical level. Based on studies of literary criticism, philosophy, and extensive hands-on experience in training, Hearne asserts, in boldly anthropomorphic terms, that animals (at least those that interact more with humans) are far more intelligent than we assume. In fact, they are capable of developing an understanding of ""the good, "" a moral code that
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