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To my knowledge, this is the first time that we've been able to track the ongoing evolution of collective behavior in a natural population of animals and find out what's actually working best.
And so we evolved into social animals, where we lived together and worked together in what I call a circle of safety, inside the tribe, where we felt like we belonged.
It has no nutritional value, so they don't feed it to the animals.
The reason for that, of course, is that each of these animals produces tiny quantities, and in the case of the dog, males dogs can smell it, but we can't smell it.
With that new concept, we needed a new word, and that was the word "pheromone," and it's basically transferred excitement, transferred between individuals, and since 1959, pheromones have been found right the way across the animal kingdom, in male animals, in female animals.
These animals, they were being demonized.
One government biologist, he explained this war on animals like the bear by saying that they no longer had a place in our advancing civilization, and so we were just clearing them out of the way.
The grizzly would soon be wiped out from 95 percent of its original territory, and whereas once there had been 30 million bison moving across the plains, and you would have these stories of trains having to stop for four or five hours so that these thick, living rivers of the animals could pour over the tracks, now, by 1902, there were maybe less than 100 left in the wild.
How do we imagine animals, how do we think and feel about them, and how do their reputations get written and then rewritten in our minds?
Well, there's a new field, a relatively new field of social science that started looking at these questions and trying to unpack the powerful and sometimes pretty schizophrenic relationships that we have to animals, and I spent a lot of time looking through their academic journals, and all I can really say is that their findings are astonishingly wide-ranging.
In a study where a fake snake and a fake turtle were put on the side of the road, drivers hit the snake much more often than the turtle, and about three percent of drivers who hit the fake animals seemed to do it on purpose.
We tend to sympathize more with animals that look like us, and especially that resemble human babies, so with big, forward-facing eyes and circular faces, kind of a roly-poly posture.
There's a cultural dimension to how we think about animals, and we're telling stories about these animals, and like all stories, they are shaped by the times and the places in which we're telling them.
And you can see that cycle playing out again and again with all kinds of animals.
I mean, we thought of these animals as mysterious and terrifying lords of the Arctic.
Whether those animals lived or died now was entirely up to the compassion or the indifference of people.
So what I've been saying is that the stories that we tell about wild animals are so subjective they can be irrational or romanticized or sensationalized.
Once life on Earth had access to multicellularity and sophisticated genetic structures, and sex, new opportunities opened up: animals became possible.
The animals rapidly invert and disappear in less than 150 milliseconds — you never see them — using the same structures that they use to run, their legs.
Rather than the fixed behaviors that non-mammalian animals have, it could invent new behaviors.
Non-mammalian animals couldn't do any of those things.
They were praising Dr. King as his style of activism was branded as terrorism if done in the name of animals or the environment.
And over here we have a drawing of some farm animals.
And there are animals, a lot of animals, and "monkey" is the most common animal and the 14th most popular password overall.
There are 50 billion land animals used every year for food, and the vast majority of them are factory farmed, living in conditions of horrific suffering.
There are 3,000 times more animals in factory farms than there are stray pets, but yet, factory farming gets one fiftieth of the philanthropic funding.
There's no food or fodder for the animals.
I'm mortgaging gold to buy food and fodder for my animals."
It's where farmers can bring their animals to one place and get fodder and water.
And I spent the last seven years, actually, looking into this topic of mental illness in other animals.
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