Jessica SERRA

The intelligence of life
For LSD, Franck Bessière shows how life teems all around us with nearly three hundred thousand species of plants and eight million animal species including us. This series is a journey to the heart of what surrounds us but also of who we are.

The intelligence of life
For LSD, Franck Bessière shows how life teems all around us with nearly three hundred thousand species of plants and eight million animal species including us. This series is a journey to the heart of what surrounds us but also of who we are.

Audio conversation around the film “The Animal Kingdom”

Episode 34: “Do cats love us?”
With Jessica Serra, ethologist, co-author with Lili Sohn of the comic strip “In the head of a cat” (Editions humenSciences):

The intelligence of life
For LSD, Franck Bessière shows how life teems all around us with nearly three hundred thousand species of plants and eight million animal species including us. This series is a journey to the heart of what surrounds us but also of who we are.

It is with this famous exchange that our guest Jessica Serra begins her book. It was for a long time unbearable for Man to accept the idea that he was an Animal like any other. However, it is enough to observe animals to realize that many "characteristics of Man" exist in Animals: intelligence, emotions, the invention of tools...

Second batch of episodes in the Jessica Serra cycle, ethologist (animal behavior specialist). Jessica is the author of The Beast in Us (2021, Humensciences). Jessica explains that many of the “properties” of man (intelligence, self-awareness, laughter, feelings...) are not really...

Continuation and end of the episodes of the cycle Jessica Serra, ethologist (animal behavior specialist). Jessica is the author of The Beast in Us (2021, Humensciences).

Continuation and end of the episodes of the cycle Jessica Serra, ethologist (animal behavior specialist). Jessica is the author of The Beast in Us (2021, Humensciences).

Continuation and end of the episodes of the cycle Jessica Serra, ethologist (animal behavior specialist). Jessica is the author of The Beast in Us (2021, Humensciences).

Continuation and end of the episodes of the cycle Jessica Serra, ethologist (animal behavior specialist). Jessica is the author of The Beast in Us (2021, Humensciences).

Continuation and end of the episodes of the cycle Jessica Serra, ethologist (animal behavior specialist). Jessica is the author of The Beast in Us (2021, Humensciences).

Continuation and end of the episodes of the cycle Jessica Serra, ethologist (animal behavior specialist). Jessica is the author of The Beast in Us (2021, Humensciences).

Continuation and end of the episodes of the cycle Jessica Serra, ethologist (animal behavior specialist). Jessica is the author of The Beast in Us (2021, Humensciences).

Continuation and end of the episodes of the cycle Jessica Serra, ethologist (animal behavior specialist). Jessica is the author of The Beast in Us (2021, Humensciences).

Continuation and end of the episodes of the cycle Jessica Serra, ethologist (animal behavior specialist). Jessica is the author of The Beast in Us (2021, Humensciences).

Continuation and end of the episodes of the cycle Jessica Serra, ethologist (animal behavior specialist). Jessica is the author of The Beast in Us (2021, Humensciences).

Jessica Serra, author of the book My Cat and Me published by Belin.

Guillaume Maidatchevsky, director of the film My Cat and Me, the Great Adventure of Rrou.

Olivier Babinet and Benoît Poelvoorde for the film Normale.

Music: Pow Wow the cat  / Christophe – these little luxuries.