Animal Minds

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

Science, Natural Sciences, History, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6 • 43.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

In this hour of Radiolab, stories of cross-species communication.

When we gaze into the eyes of a wild animal, or even a beloved pet, can we ever really know what they might be thinking? Is it naive to assume they're experiencing something close to human emotions? Or is it ridiculous to assume that they AREN'T feeling something like that? We get the story of a rescued whale that may have found a way to say thanks, ask whether dogs feel guilt, and wonder if a successful predator may have fallen in love with a photographer.

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0:00.0	Wait, you're listening to Radio Lab from WNYC.
0:16.4	Hey, it's Latif and Lulu and Radio Lab.
0:22.6	We both sound a little scratchy, but you're not going to hear a lot of us today because
0:26.8	we're traveling back into the past for a very special, warm, fuzzy, yet complicated episode
0:34.3	from the archives.
0:35.3	But first, we wanted to tell you about something new and shiny.
0:38.9	Yeah, which is a new and shiny delivery mechanism for this show that we love so much, which
0:46.7	is you can get it on YouTube now.
0:48.6	Yeah, so Radio Lab has recently made this whole massive YouTube channel, which has some
0:54.6	kind of amazing things from over the years.
0:56.4	It has animated shorts.
0:58.0	It's got music videos from collaborations we've done with different musicians.
1:02.9	It's got live shows.
1:05.0	It's got, yeah, it's got a ton of stuff.
1:07.1	But the best thing of all, I think, is it has these bundles.
1:12.2	It has these themed lists, including a sort of a starter kit.
1:16.8	So for people who are maybe more recent to the show, you can just quickly just race gallop
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1:29.9	So as we were putting that together, thinking about, you know, what are the really special
1:33.4	radio labs?
1:35.0	We started thinking about this, Oldie Buttiguddy, which is called Animal Mines.
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