Jun 18, 2024
In our last episode, we spent time with the extraordinary Dr.
Jane Goodall, primatologist, writer, speaker, and conservationist.
Dr. Goodall previewed today's episode, featuring the three
recipients of the Wildlife Intelligence Project, a $2.7 million
joint initiative between National Geographic Society and Templeton
World Charity Foundation designed to support "three early-career
scientists…whose passion for and discoveries in wildlife field
research have the potential to illuminate unknown wonders of our
world.” We're proud to be in conversation with cognitive ecologist
and bee researcher Dr. Felicity Muth, primatologist Dr. Tiago
Falótico, and behavioral ecologist and biologist Dr. Mauricio
Cantor.
These three National Geographic Explorers all study animal cognition, but how they do it, and their objects of study — bees, capuchin monkeys, and dolphins — varies. What that shows, as you’ll hear about today, is that intelligence can take many forms, and it’s only once we look past our anthropocentric definitions of intelligence that we can truly understand and appreciate the complexity and beauty of nature.
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