Jerry Moore

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223 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 2 Feb

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Something You Should Know · The Human Need to Matter & The Enduring Appeal of Cats · 5 Jan 2026 podcast

And as well as elephants and things like that.

And what's really interesting is that when we go back and look at cave art that was made 15 to 20,000 years ago and painted on the walls of caves in Europe during the Paleolithic, like at Chauvet Cave,

The animals that are depicted there are not just some random depiction of animals that ancient peoples ran into.

They are the same charismatic species.

They are cave lions.

They are cave bears.

They're mammoths.

They're rhinoceri.

And it's really interesting to see that kind of continuity between someone who's making cave art in the Upper Paleolithic

And a modern designer who's saying, okay, who would be a good animal character for the next Disney cartoon?

And they're likely to choose the same charismatic animals.

Right.

And, you know, I've often toyed with the idea.

I mean, what would a Disney film based on Tammy the tapeworm look like?

because of the affinity between people and their animals.

This is something that you should realize that here in the United States, as well as elsewhere in Europe, for example, in the United Kingdom, we have explicit laws stating why animals and humans cannot be buried together.

And in part, those laws exist in order to make sure that folks who love their cats and dogs don't get interred with them.

So this is a cultural barrier that we've got.

In fact, one of the reasons that people are attracted to having their cats cremated is so that they can have the cat with them after the animal has died.

which they otherwise would not be able to do given our state laws about cemeteries and burials.

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