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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

Political animals (with Leah Garcés)

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

Is There a Depth of Empathy in Chickens?

A study by Joanne Edgar at the University of Bristol found that chickens have empathy. She says we can't understand their intelligence or emotions because we're nothing like them. A primatologist named Franz de Voll has moved things forward in terms of how we have this tendency to see ourselves as very separate from animals, but he's breaking that down.

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