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But unfortunately, these animals are under constant threat from poachers who hunt and kill them for their body parts.
To stop the killing of these animals, battalions of soldiers and rangers are sent to protect Nepal's national parks, but that is not an easy task, because these soldiers have to patrol thousands of hectares of forests on foot or elephant backs.
We've also taken pictures of other animals including forest buffalos in Gabon, elephants, and even turtle nests.
But besides taking pictures of just the animals themselves, we also take pictures of the habitats these animals live in, because we want to keep track of the health of these habitats.
For example, camera traps are a common tool used by biologists to take pictures of shy animals hiding in the forests, but these are motion-activated cameras, so they snap a picture every time an animal crosses their path.
Now these collars are put onto animals.
They transmit a radio signal which allows the researcher to track the movements of these animals across the landscape.
But the traditional way of tracking animals is pretty ridiculous, because it requires the researcher to be walking on the ground carrying a huge and cumbersome radio antenna, not unlike those old TV antennae we used to have on our rooftops.
Why not equip a drone with a scanning radio receiver, fly that over the forest canopy in a certain pattern which would allow the user or the operator to triangulate the location of these radio-collared animals remotely without having to step foot in the forest.
That would give us biologists a pretty good idea of what animals might be living in those forests.
Why is it that we study other animals instead of them studying us?
If all brains were made the same way and you were to compare animals with brains of different sizes, larger brains should always have more neurons than smaller brains, and the larger the brain, the more cognitively able its owner should be.
In biology, we look for rules that apply to all animals and to life in general, so why should the rules of evolution apply to everybody else but not to us?
So this to me became the important question to answer: how many neurons does the human brain have, and how does that compare to other animals?
Well, animals do and can provide extremely useful information.
And even animals, like these donkeys, love our buildings.
I grew up amongst those animals.
Now my stories are not the stories that you'll hear on the news, and while it's true that Africa is a harsh place, I also know it to be a place where people, animals and ecosystems teach us about a more interconnected world.
And it reminded me that even people who grow up in cities feel a natural connection with the natural world and with animals.
Well, what you do is, you test in animals, you test in test tubes, but there's this notion of going from the bench to the bedside, and in order to get from the bench, the lab, to the bedside, to the patients, you've got to get the drug tested.
But even though we know that these differences occur, 66 percent of the brain research that begins in animals is done in either male animals or animals in whom the sex is not identified.
So, the psychologist Paul Rozin would say that many of the things we categorize as gross are things that reminds us that we're just animals.
And the idea that we're just animals can be really unsettling, because it can be this reminder of our own mortality.
And one of them is the extraordinary social complexity of the animals around us, and today I want to tell you a few stories of animal complexity.
They are very social animals.
What we do is put very small GPS collars on these animals to study how they move together, and what this has to do with their social structure.
And the lesson is that it's often difficult, and sometimes even a bit dangerous, to draw parallels between humans and animals.
Just as some animals can use objects in their environments as tools to reach into narrow spaces, here we see that Entropica, again on its own initiative, was able to move a large disk representing an animal around so as to cause a small disk, representing a tool, to reach into a confined space holding a third disk and release the third disk from its initially fixed position.
In addition, just as some other animals are able to cooperate by pulling opposite ends of a rope at the same time to release food, here we see that Entropica is able to accomplish a model version of that task.
Humans and bonobos are the only animals that have sex face-to-face when both of them are alive.
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