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Frans de Waal: Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

It used to be considered unscientific to talk about animals having emotions or solving problems. However, a revolution in the field of animal cognition has dramatically altered the conversation. Pioneering primatologist Frans de Waal has explored the mental capacities of animals for over three decades, and his seminal work with chimps and bonobos has demonstrated that other species can be as conniving, conciliatory, compassionate, and politically minded as humans.

In his new book Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, Frans de Waal takes a deep look at animal cognition and the many kinds of intelligence in the animal world—from tool-making crows and self-aware apes to discriminating elephants and octopuses that are slippery (in more ways than one). At the next Secret Science Club, he asks: How does intelligence evolve? What clues about the human mind are revealed by studying animal cognition? What mental skills do animals have that we are just beginning to understand?

Director of the Living Links Center at Yerkes National Primate Research Center and professor of primate behavior in the department of psychology at Emory University, Frans de Waal is the author of numerous best-selling books including Our Inner Ape, The Age of Empathy, Bonobos, and Chimpanzee Politics, as well as over 150 scientific papers, and essays in the New York Times, Science, Nature, and Scientific American.

Before & After

–Try our cocktail of the night, the Smartini

–Groove to wild tunes and sounds of spring

–Stick around for the scintillating Q&A!

–Snag a signed copy of Frans de Waal’s just-released book, Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

This edition of the Secret Science Club meets Monday, April 25, 2016, 8 pm @ the Bell House, 149 7th St. (between 2nd and 3rd avenues) in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Subway: F or G to 4th Ave; R to 9th St.

Doors open at 7:30 pm. Please bring ID: 21+. No cover. Just bring your smart self!











When: Mon., Apr. 25, 2016 at 8:00 pm
Where: The Bell House
149 7th St., Brooklyn
718-643-6510
Price: Free
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It used to be considered unscientific to talk about animals having emotions or solving problems. However, a revolution in the field of animal cognition has dramatically altered the conversation. Pioneering primatologist Frans de Waal has explored the mental capacities of animals for over three decades, and his seminal work with chimps and bonobos has demonstrated that other species can be as conniving, conciliatory, compassionate, and politically minded as humans.

In his new book Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, Frans de Waal takes a deep look at animal cognition and the many kinds of intelligence in the animal world—from tool-making crows and self-aware apes to discriminating elephants and octopuses that are slippery (in more ways than one). At the next Secret Science Club, he asks: How does intelligence evolve? What clues about the human mind are revealed by studying animal cognition? What mental skills do animals have that we are just beginning to understand?

Director of the Living Links Center at Yerkes National Primate Research Center and professor of primate behavior in the department of psychology at Emory University, Frans de Waal is the author of numerous best-selling books including Our Inner Ape, The Age of Empathy, Bonobos, and Chimpanzee Politics, as well as over 150 scientific papers, and essays in the New York Times, Science, Nature, and Scientific American.

Before & After

–Try our cocktail of the night, the Smartini

–Groove to wild tunes and sounds of spring

–Stick around for the scintillating Q&A!

–Snag a signed copy of Frans de Waal’s just-released book, Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

This edition of the Secret Science Club meets Monday, April 25, 2016, 8 pm @ the Bell House, 149 7th St. (between 2nd and 3rd avenues) in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Subway: F or G to 4th Ave; R to 9th St.

Doors open at 7:30 pm. Please bring ID: 21+. No cover. Just bring your smart self!

Buy tickets/get more info now