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what are they thinking what really makes
them tick oh look at that face is there
any way to get inside the animal
mind they sure have some amazing
abilities take this Bird Genius who can
get the hidden treat faster a bird grain
or Man's Best Friend through his own
problem solving abilities he worked at
what he had around him to his
Advantage is it Instinct training or
something else what I really want to
know is what is it like to be an animal
what are the problems they have to solve
um and how do they think and are they
like us or are they like something
totally
different in a three-part Nova series
cuttingedge animal science reveals new
answers getting inside their heads in
ways never before possible without
proper conditioning and training the
dogs would just run scared from the MRI
we've already taught the dogs through
lots of practice that this means food we
find that the area that's common to all
the dogs corresponds exactly to the same
part of the human brain that responds to
reward we put different species to the
test to explore the roots of animal
intelligence who are the best problem
solvers if they were students in a
classroom the wolf would be focusing
down on the test test and solving the
problem the dogs would be cheating by
looking at somebody else's
test who wins the battle of the super
senses could a dog smell time they have
hundreds of millions more receptors in
their nose than a person does between
half four and five he's there at the
door wa for them what about this dolphin
even blindfolded it can perceive and
imitate a swimmer's movements you know I
see this every day and I still cannot
get over how extraordinary it is
that he does this and does brain size
really matter a crow's brain in relative
terms is as big as that of a chimpanzee
what the bird can do is filter out all
that unnecessary information in the
environment and focus on only those bits
of information that really
matter dive deep into the animal
experience get the little Facey down
here to explore their
language relationships even emotions if
you start giving One of Them Grapes
which are far better than cucumber then
the one who gets cucumber becomes very
obset emotionally
agitated are they more like us than we
ever thought possible so now we're
looking through a window and they'll be
seeing the mirror having a sense of self
would go I shouldn't say hand in hand I
could say flipper to flipper with
complex understanding of
others inside animal Minds come coming
soon on
Nova