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What are animals thinking and feeling?

Carl Safina · TED

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About

What's going on inside the brains of animals? Can we know what, or if, they're thinking and feeling? Carl Safina thinks we can. Using discoveries and anecdotes that span ecology, biology and behavioral science, he weaves together stories of whales, wolves, elephants and albatrosses to argue that just as we think, feel, use tools and express emotions, so too do the other creatures – and minds – that share the Earth with us.

The talk

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
Mission Blue II
Speaker
Carl Safina
Year
2015
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Biology, Medicine and health, Earth and environment, Psychology and the brain
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
Attribution
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