Human uniqueness/Video

• A lecture on Human uniqueness, by Robert Sapolsky

Explores the uniqueness of our species from the perspective of a primatologist, bringing up examples in which other species — mostly other primates like baboons and chimpanzees but also stickleback fish, for example — show the following behaviour:

• aggression, up to the point of intraspecies killing and group combat
• Theory of mind
• Tit for tat
• Empathy
• Anticipation
• Culture

• An orbituary for Alex, a parrot with tremendous contributions to our understanding of cognitive evolution

• Orca whales engaging in collaborative hunting of a seal

• A video from the supplementary material of
  Wich, Serge A.; Karyl B. Swartz & Madeleine E. Hardus et al. (2009), "A case of spontaneous acquisition of a human sound by an orangutan", Primates: in press, DOI:10.1007/s10329-008-0117-y ^[e], showing a whistling 30-year old orangutan:

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