Jane Goodall – What It Means to Be Human
On Being with Krista Tippett
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Chimpanzees and Humans - The Biggest Difference Between Us and Other Animals
The biggest difference between us, chimps and other animals is the explosive development of our intellect. There's a huge flurry of information about animal intelligence that ranges from chimpanzees using computers in clever s to elephants with their very close social bonds. And pigs, you know, they'e as intelligent as dogs, more intelligent than some. And now we know the octos is highly intelligent, yes? And we know trees communicate with exactly plant like the intelligence of plants, yes. So here we are with this intellect that's enabled us to do something very different from all the animal successors,. The most intellectual creature, surely, that's ever lived on the planet is destroying its only home. i always
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