Animal Einsteins

See how intelligent animals stack up against human brainpower when it comes to reasoning. Watch crows and chimps solve complex puzzles, discover how bees do math, and meet a New Zealand parrot that may be the smartest creature of them all.

Explore the ingenious, totally relatable ways that animals transmit knowledge. Find out why dolphins have individual names for one another, decode covert cuttlefish signals, and explore the instinctive understanding between humans and apes.

Meet nature’s most gifted architects, who create safe spaces to raise young, store food, catch prey, and impress mates. Examine structures made by beavers, prairie dogs, and bowerbirds and see what humans can learn from their building brilliance.

Examine the idea of social intelligence and learn why animals that work together are very clever. Track lions that hunt in teams, watch bats build trust and donor networks through grooming, and learn how wild wolves evolved into man’s best friend.

Watch creatures use smart cheats and shocking deceits to get ahead. Check out an octopus’ unappetizing new look, see a caterpillar that squats in other insects’ homes, and get blown away by a sea otter who kidnaps a pup to get a free meal.

Discover wild navigation strategies animals use to get from Point A to Point B. Check out a mule deer’s natural GPS, see why poison dart frogs are masterful map-makers, and marvel at a dung beetle that charts a course by the light of the Milky Way.