Welcome to episode 2 of Brilliant Minds of the Animal Kingdom. This episode is all about

Animal Intelligence. In other words, how smart are animals and what, if anything, separates us from them? Are we smarter or just different? Do animals think ahead like we do, are they capable of imagining scenarios? Do they feel the same emotions we do? Do animals understand what is fair and what is unfair? To answer these questions I’ll be interviewing Frans De Waal, a world renowned primatologist and ethologist. He is THE Professor of Primate Behavior in the Department of Psychology at Emory University and the author of several best selling books including Are We Smart Enough to Know how Smart Animals are and Mama’s Last Hug. He’ll be explaining how his decades of research have shifted paradigms across the scientific community and how he himself has been amazed by the brilliance and complexity of the animals he’s studied.

Some animals make dangerous journeys every day to look for food and water, or find materials for their nests. Others make epic journeys crossing oceans and continents to find a mate or escape the looming winter. All of these nomads, migrants and globe trotters have one thing in common: they know how to get to their final destination and they know how to get back.

Most of these are journeys the average person would find impossible without GPS. Infact, many of the world’s best sailors throughout history have been less successful in navigating the world than dozens of these amazing species.

But how do they do this? Do animals map out their environments? Or is it all instinct? Do they use the sun, moon and stars like human sailors of old? Do their superior sense of smell or sight play a part? Or are they in tune with some secret or invisible language of the earth that modern humans are disconnected from? In this episode of Brilliant Minds of the Animal Kingdom we’ll discuss these mysteries with David Barrie, Author of “Super Navigators….Exploring the wonders of how animals find their way”.

You can buy the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Supernavigators-Astounding-Science-Animals-Their-ebook/dp/B07H3GLRMP

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