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Living psychology: animal minds
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Acknowledgements

This free course was written by Claire Hewson, Pam Ramsden and Jim Turner.

Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] ), this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence.

The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course:

Images

Figure 1: © Jim Turner

Figure 3: © Janekpfeifer This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

Figure 5: © Tina Bloom

Figure 6: © Rebecca E. Phillips/Washington State University. Used with permission.

Figure 8: © Jim Turner

Figure 10: Premack, D, Woodruff, G. Behavioral and Brain Sciences / Volume 1 / Issue 04 / December 1978, pp 515- 526, © Cambridge University Press 1978.

Figure 13 and course image: © Michael Neugebauer/Dr Goodall and the Jane Goodall Institute do not endorse handling or interfering with wild chimpanzees. The orphaned chimpanzee in this photo lives at a JGI sanctuary.

Figure 14: Used with kind permission of Moti Nissani

Audio-visual

TED Talk – Jaak Panksepp on the science of emotions (2014): Ted Talk (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/)

Inside the animal mind – Are crows the ultimate animal problem solvers? (n.d.): BBC, Nights Journey (Atmosphere Music Ltd [PRS]), Truly Magical (BBC Production Music), Think Tank (Bruton Music Ltd [PRS]), DR Alex Taylor – Crow problem-solving experiment (Dr Alex Taylor), Tears and Smoke (First Digital Music [BMI] ZPC Music [ASCAP]); New Caledonian crows succeed at trap-tube experiment (n.d.): © Marc Tadaki

TED Talk – Frans de Waal on moral behaviour in animals (2012): Ted Talk (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/)

Theory of mind: inner life of elephants (n.d.): © Moti Nassani, with kind permission

Do Animals Lie? (n.d.): BBC; The Cultured Ape (n.d.): BBC; Behind the scenes – animal cognition (n.d.): Horizon's Secret life of Dogs. (TX: 06/01/10), Countryfile – 26/08/12, Countryfile – 22/09/13, The Really Wild Show – S21, Ep5, Blue Peter – A Brand New Puppy – 19/06/2014, Woof! Horizon Guide to Dogs (BBC)

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