Ludwig Huber nominated for the Deutscher Sachbuchpreis 2022

For his work Rational Animals: A Search for Clues in Cognitive Biology, Ludwig Huber has been nominated for the German Non-Fiction Prize 2022.
 

The jury states:

»A rook learning to fetch food from a tube with a stick; monkeys cracking nuts with different tools; dolphins hesitating when they don't recognise a sound correctly. Animals communicate, read minds and plan actions. They are – as countless experiments over the past decades have shown – far more intelligent than humans suspected for a long time. What's more: they also act rationally, as Ludwig Huber describes. He brings us up to date with the latest research in cognitive biology and impressively proves that its results force us to treat animals differently, that is: rationally and ethically. His book is a culmination of both science and education.«

The Deutscher Sachbuchpreis (German Non-Fiction Prize), endowed with 42,500 Euros, is awarded by the Stiftung Buchkultur und Leseförderung of the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels for an exceptional German-language work of non-fiction that stimulates social debates. The works are judged based on the relevance of their topics, the narrative power of the text itself, the way of presenting research in an accessible manner as well as the quality of the research. One of the eight nominated titles will be elected the Non-Fiction Book of the Year by the jury on 30 May 2022.

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