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Inside Animal Intelligence

Inside Animal Intelligence

Written by: More Than Instinct: Inside Animal Intelligence
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More Than Instinct explores what research reveals about animal learning, memory, communication, tools, and flexible behavior.

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  • How Rats Learn Routes and Rules

    How Rats Learn Routes and Rules
    Sep 21 2026
    Step into the maze to see how rats learn routes, recognize patterns and adjust when rules change. The episode separates observed behavior from broader claims about intelligence. Inside this episode: - A maze is a question - Learning a route - Landmarks outside the maze - The cognitive map idea - The hippocampus Sources include Behavioral Brain Research review of rodent mazes, Cincinnati water maze methods and findings, and Landmarks and cognitive maps review. This episode is a researched narrative summary. Historical records may be incomplete, translated differently, or interpreted differently by scholars. We distinguish documented facts, estimates, disputed interpretations, and later stories where material. Corrections are logged and incorporated into future editions. Follow More Than Instinct: Inside Animal Intelligence for more researched stories about the science of animal intelligence.
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    10 mins
  • What Elephants Remember About Their Social World

    What Elephants Remember About Their Social World
    Sep 21 2026
    Explore how elephants use long-term social knowledge to recognize calls, navigate relationships and respond to changing groups. The evidence is compelling, while the limits of what researchers can infer remain clear. Inside this episode: - A society that separates and reconnects - Recognizing a voice - The matriarch's experience - Memory through smell - The meaning of a greeting Sources include Animal Cognition, elephant memory review and Science, matriarchs as repositories of social knowledge. This episode is a researched narrative summary. Historical records may be incomplete, translated differently, or interpreted differently by scholars. We distinguish documented facts, estimates, disputed interpretations, and later stories where material. Corrections are logged and incorporated into future editions. Follow More Than Instinct: Inside Animal Intelligence for more researched stories about the science of animal intelligence.
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    11 mins
  • How Dolphins Use Signature Whistles

    How Dolphins Use Signature Whistles
    Sep 21 2026
    How does a dolphin recognize another individual by sound? Follow the evidence behind signature whistles, including playback experiments and the limits of comparing these calls to human names. Inside this episode: - A distinctive contour - Why identity matters in water - The playback test - Can one dolphin copy another - Mothers and calves Sources include Proceedings of the Royal Society B, signature whistle recognition, NOAA repository, bottlenose dolphin voice study, and NOAA repository, signature signals in other species. This episode is a researched narrative summary. Historical records may be incomplete, translated differently, or interpreted differently by scholars. We distinguish documented facts, estimates, disputed interpretations, and later stories where material. Corrections are logged and incorporated into future editions. Follow More Than Instinct: Inside Animal Intelligence for more researched stories about the science of animal intelligence.
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    11 mins
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