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Season 38 Episode 18: How Smart Are Animals?

51 Seasons Feb 09, 2011 TV-PG 55m 8.7

Would you care to match wits with a dog, an octopus, a dolphin, or a parrot? You may think twice after watching the segments in this NOVA scienceNOW episode. While we may not be ready to send pets to Harvard, the remarkable footage and findings presented here demonstrate that many animal species are much smarter than we assume and in ways we had never imagined.

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Season 38 Episodes:

Episode 1 Deadliest Earthquakes

1. Deadliest Earthquakes

Aired: Oct 19, 2010

In 2010, several epic earthquakes delivered one of the worst annual death tol...

Episode 3 Making Stuff: Smaller

3. Making Stuff: Smaller

Aired: Nov 2, 2010

David Pogue hosts this examination of miniaturization. He looks at what it ta...

Episode 4 Making Stuff: Cleaner

4. Making Stuff: Cleaner

Aired: Nov 9, 2010

This program looks at cleaner ways to generate power principally in our cars ...

Episode 6 Making Stuff: Smarter

6. Making Stuff: Smarter

Aired: Nov 23, 2010

Making stuff smarter isn't about artificial intelligence. It's more about eng...

Episode 7 Crash of Flight 447

7. Crash of Flight 447

Aired: Dec 28, 2010

Forensic investigators reconstruct the final moments of the Air France disaster.

Episode 9 Japan's Killer Quake

9. Japan's Killer Quake

Aired: Jan 19, 2011

On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck Japan resulting in waves...

Episode 10 Power Surge

10. Power Surge

Aired: Jan 26, 2011

How small can we go? Could we one day have robots taking "fantastic voyages" ...

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Current Status: Returning Series

Network: PBS

Genres: Documentary