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Beautiful Minds: The Parallel Lives of Great Apes and Dolphins M Bearzi and CB Stanford (2008). Published by Harvard University Press, Fitzroy House, 11 Chenies Street, London WC1E 7EY, UK. 329 pp Paperback (ISBN 978-0674-02781-7). Price £16.95, €18.50, US$24.95.

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Beautiful Minds: The Parallel Lives of Great Apes and Dolphins M Bearzi and CB Stanford (2008). Published by Harvard University Press, Fitzroy House, 11 Chenies Street, London WC1E 7EY, UK. 329 pp Paperback (ISBN 978-0674-02781-7). Price £16.95, €18.50, US$24.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2023

Stan Kuczaj  and
Josefin Starkhammar
Stan Kuczaj
Affiliation:
University of Southern Mississippi, USA
Josefin Starkhammar
Affiliation:
Lund University, Sweden
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Animal Welfare , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , February 2009 , pp. 105 - 107
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© 2009 Universities Federation for Animal Welfare

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