Summary: <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c07b0574-4160-c0b0-6adb-c1c951393149" style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In this hour, TED speakers explore the complex relationships we have with animals. Writer Jon Mooallem tells the story of the teddy bear and considers how the tales we tell about wild animals have real consequences for a species' chance of survival — and the natural world at large. Animal trainer Ian Dunbar says we need to see the world through the eyes of our dogs if we want them to behave better. Poet Billy Collins imagines the inner life of a former canine companion. S</span><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: #ffffff; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">cience historian Laurel Braitman explores why some animals get anxious, depressed, and stressed out. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Biologist Frans de Waal studies how primates display other human traits, such as empathy, cooperation, and fairness. </span></span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br></span></p>
