The Factory Files are a curated library of everything the industry would prefer you never engaged with. Documentaries, investigations, books, films, and organisations on the front lines.
By Frans de Waal • 2019 A companion to Are We Smart Enough , but focused on emotions rather than cognition. De Waal argues that animal emotions are not lesser versions of human emotions, they're actually the originals . We inherited our emotional architecture from our evolutionary ancestors; we didn't invent it. The book explores empathy, grief, shame, gratitude, and disgust across species, grounded in decades of primatological observation. Why it matters The question of ani
By Frans de Waal • 2016 Primatologist Frans de Waal dismantles decades of scientific bias that framed animal cognition research around the question "can they do what we do?" He argues the question itself is flawed - that we've systematically underestimated animal intelligence by testing them on human terms rather than their own. The book surveys remarkable findings across species: tool use in crows, planning in apes, empathy in elephants, memory in octopuses. But more importa
