A review by linn1378
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans de Waal

4.0

It seems highly unfair to ask if a squirrel can count to ten if counting is not really what a squirrel's life is about.

Instead of making humanity the measure of all things, we need to evaluate other species by what they are.


If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.

Frans de Waal's TED Talk: Moral behavior in animals