Animal signals: Mind reading and manipulation - Krebs and Dawkins

1984

“Mind-reading is not a necessary prerequisite for the evolution of manipulation, but it is probably a common one. When we ask what it is that predisposes an animal to be manipulated. the answer is quite likely to be that its senses are tuned into mind-reading the would-be manipulator. which gives the would-be manipulator a key with which he can unlock the other's nervous system.” (P.389-390)

Krebs, J. R. and Dawkins, R. (1984). “Animal signals: Mind reading and manipulation,” in Behavioural Ecology, ed. J. R. Krebs and N. B. Davies (Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates, pp. 380–402).