Animal Minds

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Asian Elephant Art and Conservation Project
07.05.2009
 (was 07.13.2008)

In Baltimore, Maryland, there's an octopus that likes to play with toys. In Vienna, Austria, there's a border collie with a vocabulary of 340 words - more than many toddlers. Southeast Asia is home to dozens of elephants who like to paint. Re-thinking animal intelligence--not only are they smarter than we thought – in some cases they're smarter than us.

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