
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


After a beloved gorilla at the Toronto Zoo named Charles died last month, hundreds of people visited his enclosure to mourn and lay flowers. But did his fellow apes understand that he had died? Did Charles ever contemplate his own mortality? Susana Monsó has long contemplated questions like these as she seeks to understand how animals understand death. The philosopher joins Piya Chattopadhyay to talk about how all kinds of animals relate to mortality... and what we humans might learn from them.
By CBC4.2
4747 ratings
After a beloved gorilla at the Toronto Zoo named Charles died last month, hundreds of people visited his enclosure to mourn and lay flowers. But did his fellow apes understand that he had died? Did Charles ever contemplate his own mortality? Susana Monsó has long contemplated questions like these as she seeks to understand how animals understand death. The philosopher joins Piya Chattopadhyay to talk about how all kinds of animals relate to mortality... and what we humans might learn from them.

235 Listeners

414 Listeners

123 Listeners

395 Listeners

150 Listeners

48 Listeners

372 Listeners

206 Listeners

765 Listeners

71 Listeners

25 Listeners

27 Listeners

21 Listeners

166 Listeners

113 Listeners

236 Listeners

459 Listeners

16 Listeners

28 Listeners

275 Listeners

9 Listeners

91 Listeners

346 Listeners

4 Listeners

21 Listeners

65 Listeners

115 Listeners

4 Listeners

5 Listeners

3 Listeners

4 Listeners