• Date: Television broadcast of the lecture
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Prof. Dr Georg Klump
Institute of Biology and Environmental Sciences When animals are born, they cannot know everything right from the start. Animals, too, have to learn a great deal in order to cope with life. When we observe animals, we quickly realise that they are very good at learning certain things and can be quite clever. Some animals hide their food so they have something to eat later, and can remember a great many hiding places. Others make tools to help them get at their food more easily. Just as we learn to speak, many birds learn to sing. In doing so, they can even learn words from our language. African grey parrots even manage to say short sentences and answer simple questions. We’ll be showing these and other examples of animal learning in the lecture. The same principle applies to animals as it does to us humans: if you’re clever, you’ll succeed.
Presenter: Martin Reckweg (NDR) Wednesday, 21 September 2005, 4.30 pm
Audimax, Lecture Centre Rico is particularly clever:
He can distinguish between 200 objects.
Photo: Susanne Baus/Withold Krzeslowski