Cognition in the wild: exploring animal minds with observational evidence

Where a natural phenomenon can be brought under experimental control, either in the laboratory or the field, greater power of analysis is always achieved. But what of the phenomena that (so far) have not proved amenable to experiment? The answer for animal cognition has often been that analysis must

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