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Inside Animal Hearts and Minds: Bears That Count, Goats That Surf, and Other True Stories of Animal Intelligence and Emotion by Belinda Recio acorn distinctive chimeAs Charles Darwin suggested more than a century ago, the differences between animals and humans are one of degree and not of kind. Not long ago, ethologists denied that animals had emotions or true intelligence. Now, we know that rats laugh when tickled, magpies cover their dearly departed with greenery, female whales travel thousands of miles for annual reunions with their gal pals, ants recognize themselves in a mirror, and beetles make star maps in