Are we smart enough to know how smart animals are?
Dr. Frans de Waal has spent a career trying to understand the mental abilities of animals, and finds we've underestimated how smart they really are.
Eminent primatologist Frans de Waal explores the minds of animals
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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.
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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.
Related Links
- Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
- Yerkes National Primate Research Center