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265 - The Dolphin Point Experiment: LSD, Aliens, NASA, and Dolphin Sex

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The Clever Hans Effect on Animals

In the mid twentieth century, studies about animal intelligence and language capabilities would really take off ind the late 19 fifties. Primates became the focus of studies on the ling stic abilities of non human animals, particularly chimpanzees. It was thought that chimps couldn't speak english because they dus didn't have the right vocal anatomy to produce sounds necessary to speak English. Now scientists understand that chimps do have the right physical tools but their brains simply are not wired to speak like we do. All this makes me think, in addition to being really cool, it wouldalso be really sad in some ways, if animals could talk like we do,. You know, might be pretty hard on

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