"Evil" penguins: The reason you shouldn’t anthropomorphize animals | Lucy Cooke | Big Think

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Explains the problem of anthropomorphizing animals using penguin behavior as case study, teaching ethology methodology. Demonstrates how attribution of human traits misrepresents animal biology.

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