Do animals tell stories?

From the PBS 1999 documentary "A Conversation with Koko"

From the PBS 1999 documentary “A Conversation with Koko”

Other animals, that is. Of course we humans are compulsive storytellers. We tell stories to entertain ourselves, to explain the world, to heal each other. Sometimes we call the storytelling ritual “therapy.”

But because storytelling requires language, and because until recently Western humans thought we were the only animals who had language, we also thought that we were the only storytellers.

Now the picture is getting more complex. Read More…