Name: 【TED】Carl Safina: What are animals thinking and feeling? (What are animals thinking and feeling? | Carl Safina)
Uploaded: 2017-10-23T17:48:48.000Z
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Have you ever wondered what animals think and feel?

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Does my dog really love me, or does she just want a treat?

Well, it's easy to see that our dog really loves us,

what's going on in that fuzzy little head.

But why is the question always do they love us?

I found a different question to ask animals.

that we tend to think are capacities only of the human mind.

What are other beings doing with those brains?

We can look at evolution, we can look at their brains

The first thing to remember is: our brain is inherited.

Jellyfish gave rise to the first chordates.

The first chordates gave rise to the first vertebrates.

But it's still true that a neuron, a nerve cell, looks the same

What does that say about the minds of crayfish?

Well, it turns out that if you give a crayfish

every time it tries to come out of its burrow,

used to treat anxiety disorder in humans,

How do we show how much we care about crayfish anxiety?

Octopuses use tools, as well as do most apes

How do we celebrate the ape-like intelligence of this invertebrate?

If a grouper chases a fish into a crevice in the coral,

it will sometimes go to where it knows a moray eel is sleeping

and it will signal to the moray, "Follow me,"

and the moray will understand that signal.

The moray may go into the crevice and get the fish,

but the fish may bolt and the grouper may get it.

This is an ancient partnership that we have just recently found out about.

How do we celebrate that ancient partnership?

A pattern is emerging and it says a lot more about us

and they take time away from what they're doing

to show their babies what to do, which is called teaching.

Killer whales teach and killer whales share food.

it uses the parts it has in stock, off the shelf,

through the enormity of the deep sweep of time.

If you look at the human brain compared to a chimpanzee brain,

what you see is we have basically a very big chimpanzee brain.

It's a good thing ours is bigger, because we're also really insecure.

OK, maybe you're saying, all right, well, we see brains,

but what does that have to say about minds?

They have found a patch of shade under the palm trees

just as they make perfect sense of what they're doing

because under the arc of the same sun on the same plains,

listening to the howls of the same dangers,

they became who they are and we became who we are.

We've been neighbors for a very long time.

No one would mistake these elephants as being relaxed.

They're obviously very concerned about something.

It turns out that if you record the voices of tourists

and you play that recording from a speaker hidden in bushes,

elephants will ignore it, because tourists never bother elephants.

who carry spears and often hurt elephants in confrontations at water holes,

the elephants will bunch up and run away from the hidden speaker.

Not only do elephants know that there are humans,

they know that there are different kinds of humans,

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【TED】Carl Safina: What are animals thinking and feeling? (What are animals thinking and feeling? | Carl Safina)

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