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The City and the Animals

Just how smart are the animals that surround us in the city—from pigeons to rats?

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MQ Summer Stage  /  MQ Main Courtyard

For a few weeks, she became world-famous: Veronika the cow, the first—known—cow capable of using tools, and in a multifunctional way at that. This has raised a big question: Have we vastly underestimated the animals around us? Just how smart are the animals that surround us in the city—from pigeons to rats?

A Conversation with Behavioral Biologists Alice Auersperg and Thomas Bugnyar

Host: Katharina Kropshofer

MQ Summer Stage

MQ Main Courtyard

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