GETTING CURIOUS | What’s On Animals’ Minds? with Eva Meijer

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

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Science, Self-improvement, Comedy, Education, Society & Culture

4.9 • 21.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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This week’s Getting Curious is going to the dogs—and the cats and the cows and the crocodiles! Philosopher and writer Eva Meijer joins Jonathan for a conversation about how non-human animals communicate, why humans have often underestimated other species’ capacity for language, and what we can do to build more sustainable, respectful relationships with other species. Among Eva’s books is Animal Languages, recently translated into English by Laura Watkinson and published by MIT University Press. Follow Eva on Facebook and Twitter @meijereva, and on her website www.evameijer.nl. Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Check out Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Getting Curious, I'm Jonathan Venice, and every week I sit down for a 40 minute conversation
0:05.7	with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.
0:09.9	On today's episode, I'm joined by philosopher and writer Ava Mayer where I ask her can animals
0:15.6	understand us?
0:20.1	Welcome to getting curious this is Jonathan Van Ness.
0:22.8	I am so excited for our episode this week.
0:25.8	I mean, I'm always excited for an episode,
0:27.2	but this one is especially special.
0:30.8	So I'm not gonna beat around the bush too much. I want to welcome our guest, but Ava, I'm going to introduce you a little bit so that people understand your prowess.
0:39.0	So Ava Mayer is an artist, you're a writer, a philosopher, a singer-songwriter, and you're also the author of 10 books of short stories, novels and poetry,
0:48.4	and your work has been translated into count them, 18 languages, you don't literally have to count them 18 languages. You don't literally have to count them.
0:54.5	But what we're going to talk about today
0:56.6	is one of your books, which is all about animal communication
1:00.6	that have just been released for the first time in English by MIT Press Genius
1:05.0	called Animal Languages.
1:07.0	And when I read about that, I was like,
1:10.0	we got to have Ava on,
1:11.0	we got to learn about animal communication,
1:13.6	and just fascinated.
1:15.9	So welcome, and thank you so much for all of your work.
1:18.9	Thank you.
1:19.8	I'm very glad to be here today. So I remember when I was a little kid and my
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