Are we smart enough to know how smart animals are?

Dr. Franz de Waal has spent his career trying to get inside the minds of animals. He's done ground-breaking work, largely with chimpanzees and monkeys, trying to understand how their minds are similar to, and different from ours, and working out the continuum of animal intelligence.

But this is not an easy task. And in his new book, Dr. de Waal explores some of the pitfalls, as well as the successes, we've encountered in trying to understand the minds of animals.

The book is called, Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
Dr. de Waal is Professor of Psychology at Emory University and director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Center in Atlanta, Georgia.

Source: http://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/quirks-quarks-for-may-7-2016-1.3570026/are-we-smart-enough-to-know-how-smart-animals-are-1.3570294

http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/podcasts/quirks_20160507_65874.mp3

Related Links
- Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
- Yerkes National Primate Research Center

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"And if we dare to look into those eyes, then we shall feel their suffering in our hearts.

More and more people have seen that appeal and felt it in their hearts.

All around the world there is an awakening of understanding and compassion, and understanding that reaches out to help the suffering animals in their vanishing homelands.

That embraces hungry, sick, and desperate human beings, people who are starving while the fortunate among us have so much more than we need.

And if, one by one, we help them, the hurting animals, the desperate humans, then together we shall alleviate so much of the hunger, fear, and pain in the world.

Together we can bring change to the world, gradually replacing fear and hatred with compassion and love. Love for all living beings."

- Jane Goodall

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