Griffin, Donald R.
Dr. Griffin is a professor of Zoology at Cornell University, Harvard University, and the Rockefeller University and one of the pioneers in the field of animal cognition. His other books include Listening in the Dark, Echoes of Bats and Men, and Bird Migration.

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Throughout our educational system students are taught that it is unscientific to ask what an animal thinks or feels. Animal Thinking, 1984.

The difference between conscious and nonconscious states is a significant one, yet most scientists concerned with animal behavior have felt that looking for consciousness in animals would be a futile anachronism. Ibid.

For many years any consideration of animal consciousness was strongly discouraged by the accusation that it was anthropomorphic. Animal Minds, 1992.

We cannot understand animals fully without knowing what their subjective lives are like. Ibid.