Are Animals Really That Smart?

Big Picture Science

Science, Technology

4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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ENCORE You own a cat, or is it vice versa? Family friendly felines have trained their owners to do their bidding. Thanks to a successful evolutionary adaptation, they rule your house. Find out how your cat has you wrapped around its paw. And it’s not the only animal to outwit us. Primatologist Frans de Waal shares the surprising intellectual capabilities of chimps, elephants, and bats. In fact, could it be that we’re simply not smart enough to see how smart animals are? Plus, the discovery of a fossilized dinosaur brain. Were those lumbering lizards more clever than we thought? Guests: Alex Liu – Paleontologist, University of Cambridge, U.K. Abigail Tucker – Author of The Lion in the Living Room: How Housecats Tamed Us and Took Over the World Frans de Waal – Primatologist, psychologist, Emory University, and author of Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:55.1	podcasts. We often set ourselves apart by dividing the world into animals and humans, on humans are animals.
1:14.0	I'm sure we have some unique traits that set us apart.
1:17.0	We build rocket chips, we wear Lycra, chase Pokemon,
1:21.0	and when getting on board a plane create categories of bored and pre-board which frankly
1:28.0	I've never understood I mean doesn't pre-board refer to the state all of us are in as long as we're not boarding
1:34.6	but never mind we humans are intelligent we're problem solvers and we're so clever
1:41.0	but are we the only animals that display these traits? I'm Seth Shostak.
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