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Inside this episode:

- A maze is a question
- Learning a route
- Landmarks outside the maze
- The cognitive map idea
- The hippocampus

Sources include Behavioral Brain Research review of rodent mazes, Cincinnati water maze methods and findings, and Landmarks and cognitive maps review.

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Inside this episode:

- A society that separates and reconnects
- Recognizing a voice
- The matriarch's experience
- Memory through smell
- The meaning of a greeting

Sources include Animal Cognition, elephant memory review and Science, matriarchs as repositories of social knowledge.

This episode is a researched narrative summary. Historical records may be incomplete, translated differently, or interpreted differently by scholars. We distinguish documented facts, estimates, disputed interpretations, and later stories where material. Corrections are logged and incorporated into future editions.

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      <title><![CDATA[How Dolphins Use Signature Whistles]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[How does a dolphin recognize another individual by sound? Follow the evidence behind signature whistles, including playback experiments and the limits of comparing these calls to human names.

Inside this episode:

- A distinctive contour
- Why identity matters in water
- The playback test
- Can one dolphin copy another
- Mothers and calves

Sources include Proceedings of the Royal Society B, signature whistle recognition, NOAA repository, bottlenose dolphin voice study, and NOAA repository, signature signals in other species.

This episode is a researched narrative summary. Historical records may be incomplete, translated differently, or interpreted differently by scholars. We distinguish documented facts, estimates, disputed interpretations, and later stories where material. Corrections are logged and incorporated into future editions.

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      <title><![CDATA[What Food-Caching Birds Remember]]></title>
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Inside this episode:

- Why hide food
- Memory for where
- Remembering what
- Remembering when
- Caches have audiences

Sources include Problems faced by food-caching corvids, Food-caching corvid cognition review, and Social cognition by food-caching corvids.

This episode is a researched narrative summary. Historical records may be incomplete, translated differently, or interpreted differently by scholars. We distinguish documented facts, estimates, disputed interpretations, and later stories where material. Corrections are logged and incorporated into future editions.

Follow More Than Instinct: Inside Animal Intelligence for more researched stories about the science of animal intelligence.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[How Bees Communicate a Food Location]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This episode explores the waggle dance, orientation cues and experimental evidence behind its interpretation. The story keeps the mechanisms clear and the research grounded for a casual listener.

Inside this episode:

- The waggle circuit
- Direction on a vertical comb
- Distance in duration
- Smell completes the message
- How experiments test the code

Sources include Karl von Frisch, Nobel Lecture, Current Biology review, honeybee dance communication, and Journal of Experimental Biology, honeybee navigation review.

This episode is a researched narrative summary. Historical records may be incomplete, translated differently, or interpreted differently by scholars. We distinguish documented facts, estimates, disputed interpretations, and later stories where material. Corrections are logged and incorporated into future editions.

Follow More Than Instinct: Inside Animal Intelligence for more researched stories about the science of animal intelligence.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[What Octopus Learning Experiments Reveal]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This episode explores Maze, discrimination and exploration studies explained without assigning unsupported human motives. The story keeps the mechanisms clear and the research grounded for a casual listener.

Inside this episode:

- A very different nervous system
- Visual discrimination
- Touch and chemical sense
- Mazes and routes
- Association and memory

Sources include The neural basis of visual processing in cephalopods, Cephalopod Cognition, learning and memory chapter, and Cephalopod Brains overview.

This episode is a researched narrative summary. Historical records may be incomplete, translated differently, or interpreted differently by scholars. We distinguish documented facts, estimates, disputed interpretations, and later stories where material. Corrections are logged and incorporated into future editions.

Follow More Than Instinct: Inside Animal Intelligence for more researched stories about the science of animal intelligence.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[How Crows Use Tools]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This episode explores what controlled observations reveal about tool choice, modification and flexible problem-solving. The story keeps the mechanisms clear and the research grounded for a casual listener.

Inside this episode:

- A specialist among crows
- Choosing a functional object
- Making and modifying
- Reading the hook
- Tools for tools

Sources include Tool use at natural foraging sites, New Caledonian crows attend to multiple tool properties, and Cognitive processes in sequential tool use.

This episode is a researched narrative summary. Historical records may be incomplete, translated differently, or interpreted differently by scholars. We distinguish documented facts, estimates, disputed interpretations, and later stories where material. Corrections are logged and incorporated into future editions.

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