Berns Gregory. What It Like to Be a Dog. And Other Adventures in Animal Neuroscience

Basic Books, 2017. — 487 p. — ISBN 9780262036184Until bin Laden was killed, I hadn’t given much thought to animal minds.
It wasn’t bin Laden but Cairo, the dog on the mission, who caught my attention. Cairo was a military working dog who could do amazing things, like jump out of helicopters. His ability to tolerate noisy, chaotic environments gave me an idea that, in retrospect, seemed so obvious that it was strange no one had thought of it before: If dogs could be trained to jump out of helicopters, then surely they could be trained to go into an MRI scanner. And why would I want to do that? To figure out what dogs were thinking, of course.