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16:52
Frans de Waal
Moral behavior in animals
Posted
Apr 2012
4:36
Eldridge Adams
Can animals be deceptive?
Posted
Dec 2018
4:46
Robyn J. Crook
How do animals experience pain?
Posted
Jan 2017
3:49
Maria R. D’Orsogna
Why do animals form swarms?
Posted
Sep 2018
5:42
Barbara J. King
Can other animals understand death?
Posted
Jul 2023
14:03
Emma Marris
Are wild animals really "wild"?
Posted
Jul 2021
9:18
Stephanie Braccini Slade
Why animals in zoos need choice
Posted
Oct 2016
5:15
Rebecca Tarvin
Why don't poisonous animals poison themselves?
Posted
Jul 2018
19:26
Carl Safina
What are animals thinking and feeling?
Posted
Nov 2015
9:02
Andras Forgacs
Leather and meat without killing animals
Posted
Sep 2013
23:46
Jane Goodall
How humans and animals can live together
Posted
Sep 2008
4:52
Luka Seamus Wright
These animals are also plants ... wait, what?
Posted
Jun 2022
10:59
Leon Marchal
The urgent case for antibiotic-free animals
Posted
Jan 2020
4:36
Joao Pedro de Magalhaes
Why do animals have such different lifespans?
Posted
Apr 2017
35:33
Peter Singer
A modern argument for the rights of animals
Posted
Jun 2023
4:28
David L. Hu
Do larger animals take longer to pee?
Posted
Nov 2020
13:06
Jacy Reese Anthis
Why we should end animal agriculture
Posted
Mar 2018
19:29
Laurel Braitman
Depressed dogs, cats with OCD — what animal madness means for us humans
Posted
Aug 2014
4:47
Ben Longdon
How do viruses jump from animals to humans?
Posted
Aug 2019
13:45
Nicolas Perony
Puppies! Now that I’ve got your attention, complexity theory
Posted
Jan 2014
4:41
Emma Bryce
Why do cats have vertical pupils?
Posted
Jan 2022
12:07
Menno Schilthuizen
How animals and plants are evolving in cities
Posted
Aug 2020
7:26
Robert Katzschmann
The future of machines that move like animals
Posted
Nov 2022
12:40
Isha Datar
How we could eat real meat without harming animals
Posted
Oct 2021
20:22
Robert Full
Robots inspired by cockroach ingenuity
Posted
Jun 2008
52:49
Lucy Cooke
What can animals teach us about sex and gender?
Posted
Jul 2022
15:17
Tracey McNamara
How monitoring animal health can predict human disease outbreaks
Posted
Jun 2018
9:25
Tanya Berger-Wolf
How your nature photos can help protect wild animals
Posted
Oct 2021
5:34
Juliana Machado Ferreira
The fight to end rare-animal trafficking in Brazil
Posted
Mar 2010
15:46
John Kasaona
How poachers became caretakers
Posted
Jun 2010
14:42
Barbara J. King
Grief and love in the animal kingdom
Posted
Jul 2019
17:08
Yuval Noah Harari
What explains the rise of humans?
Posted
Jul 2015
4:37
Gilad Bino
A year in the life of one of Earth's weirdest animals
Posted
Jul 2021
5:02
Masako Tamaki
Can you be awake and asleep at the same time?
Posted
May 2021
17:55
Paul Nicklen
Animal tales from icy wonderlands
Posted
May 2011
9:47
Carin Bondar
The birds and the bees are just the beginning
Posted
Mar 2014
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