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How Monkeys See the World: Inside the Mind of Another Species
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Acknowledgments 1. What Is It Like to be a Monkey? 2. Social Behavior 3. Social Knowledge 4. Vocal Communication 5. What the Vocalizations of Monkeys Mean 6. Summarizing the Mental Representations of Vocalizations and Social Relationships 7. Deception 8. Attribution 9. Social and Nonsocial Intelligence 10. How Monkeys See the World Appendix References Index
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