Share '8 Smart Species Challenge How We Think of Animals'

by Piper Hoffman February 24, 2013 2:30 pm Animals are smarter than we thought. This matters not just because it’s cool and fascinating. It matters because people use lack of intelligence as the reason to treat humans and non-human animals differently. It’s okay to eat animals and experiment on them, the rationale goes, because they are just dumb animals. Science is biting itself in the butt o…