The Rational Animal: In Search of Complex Cognition in Non-Human Animals

Ludwig Huber is a Professor of Comparative Cognition, as well as of the Natural Science Foundations of Animal Ethics and Human-Animal Interactions at the Messerli Research Institute, an interdisciplinary institute of the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, the Medical University of Vienna, and the University of Vienna. His research focuses on animal cognition in a broad, comparative manner, including such diverse species as humans, marmosets, dogs, kea, cockatoos, pigeons, tortoises, lizards, poison frogs and archer fish. He has (co-)authored ca. 200 research articles, 40 book chapters and 3 books about these topics (including, as co-editor, The Evolution of Cognition, MIT Press, 2000).

Ludwig Huber是維也納獸醫大學、維也納醫學大學和維也納大學跨學科研究所Messerli研究所的比較認知學教授，同時也是動物倫理學和人類與動物互動的自然科學基礎的教授。他的研究以廣泛的比較方式關注動物認知，包括人類、狨猴、狗、凱亞鳥、鸚鵡、鴿子、龜、蜥蜴、毒蛙和射擊魚等多種物種。他已經（合著）發表了約200篇研究論文、40篇專書章節和3本關於這些主題的書籍（包括作為合編者的《認知的演化》（MIT Press，2000年））。