Why aren’t other animals dumber than us?

Published on : 18/01/2022 – 12:01

Let’s question the way we look at others, starting with other animals who only have beasts by the name we have given them.

“Are we too stupid to understand other animals”, wondered ironically the famous ethologist Frans de Waal? And if we had to recognize both the beast, the animality in us, but also the extraordinary intelligence or rather the various forms of animal intelligence that never cease to surprise us by encouraging us to think differently about otherness, in general, and our human condition in particular…

With the ethologist Jessica Serra for his work The Big Book of Animal Intelligence, published by Larousse and Aurelia, cartoonist, for his book Monkeys, what kind of animals are we?, published by Futuropolis.

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