Animals

A collection of TED Talks (and more) on the topic of animals.

Video playlists about Animals

My favorite animal

8 talks • 2h 5m
Some TED speakers are obsessed with one particular animal -- and their joy and passion might just get you obsessed too. You'll meet apes that write! Shrimp that kick! Octopi that disappear!

Ocean wonders

13 talks • 3h 8m
Dive into the unexplored universe beneath the waves: the beautiful, fragile (and sometimes terrifying) world of the ocean.

Insects are awesome!

11 talks • 2h 33m
Bugs are one of nature's wonders. These insect-obsessed speakers talks about how ants form societies, how bees pollinate flowers, and how termites can be quite ... tasty.

GROSS!

9 talks • 1h 58m
Poop, parasites, dead duck sex, eating bugs, and many more impolite -- but fascinating -- topics. These talks are for the non-squeamish.
See all 11 playlists on Animals

Talks about Animals

9:03

Triona McGrath

How pollution is changing the ocean's chemistry

Posted May 2017
11:51

Kate Stafford

How human noise affects ocean habitats

Posted May 2017
16:35

Moshe Szyf

How early life experience is written into DNA

Posted Mar 2017
9:59

Katie Hinde

What we don't know about mother's milk

Posted Mar 2017
11:54

Caitlin Doughty

A burial practice that nourishes the planet

Posted Mar 2017
14:10

Jonathan Rossiter

A robot that eats pollution

Posted Feb 2017
10:49

Emily Parsons-Lord

Art made of the air we breathe

Posted Jan 2017
12:39

Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado

To solve old problems, study new species

Posted Jan 2017
13:21

Oded Shoseyov

How we're harnessing nature's hidden superpowers

Posted Sep 2016
15:52

Emma Marris

Nature is everywhere — we just need to learn to see it

Posted Jul 2016
4:49 Under 6 minutes

Prosanta Chakrabarty

Clues to prehistoric times, found in blind cavefish

Posted Jun 2016
15:49

Kenneth Lacovara

Hunting for dinosaurs showed me our place in the universe

Posted Apr 2016
12:27

Latif Nasser

You have no idea where camels really come from

Posted Mar 2016
11:21

Laura Robinson

The secrets I find on the mysterious ocean floor

Posted Mar 2016
10:10

Thomas Peschak

Dive into an ocean photographer's world

Posted Feb 2016
14:10

Auke Ijspeert

A robot that runs and swims like a salamander

Posted Jan 2016
See all 108 talks on Animals

Exclusive articles about Animals

Let’s appreciate the humble fly

We wouldn’t have chocolate without flies, and seven other reasons to respect and protect these bugs that bug us, from entomologist Bryan Lessard. When most people think of flies...

The sexual deception of plants

Why would a plant want an animal to have sex with it? Because, it turns out, plants can be horrifically manipulative and deceitful! Wild sex expert Carin Bondar explains. Sexual...
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