How intelligent is a bee? Or an ant? Or a bird? Or a human? Bees can map out the location of flowers, ants can do trigonometry in their heads, birds can navigate thousands of miles and cockatoos can ride bicycles. So is animals' intelligence at all like humans'?
James Gould , a professor of biology at Princeton
University, argues that what appears to be intelligence in many species turns out to be inborn instinctive behaviour. So why should the human mind be any different? James Gould believes that if we look at many of the fascinating ways that animal minds work, we will learn more about the human one. It was an absorbing film ...
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Producer CHRISTOPHER LA FONTAINE Horizon editor ROBIN BRIGHTWELL
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