The Best Animal Intelligence Documentaries

Nature & Wildlife - 39 free documentaries about animal intelligence.

Start with The Woman Who Can Talk To Animals (52 min, Real Wild), then 10 Animal Behaviours Filmed for the First Time Ever (28 min, BBC Earth). All 39 documentaries here are free to watch from their makers' official uploads. To read deeper, the top-rated book on animal intelligence is Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans de Waal.

• The Woman Who Can Talk To Animals | Animal Communicator (52 min, Real Wild)
• 10 Animal Behaviours Filmed for the First Time Ever (28 min, BBC Earth)
• Smart insects - The astonishing intelligence of bumblebees, wasps & co. (42 min, DW Documentary)
• The Dumbest Animal Alive (11 min, Kurzgesagt)
• Why Crows Are as Smart as 7 Year Old Humans (16 min, Real Science)
• Ravens - Intelligent Rascals of the Skies (52 min, Free Documentary - Nature)
• Beni Graduates From Jungle College! | Orangutan Jungle School 302 (50 min, Love Nature)
• Testing The World's Smartest Crow (23 min, Mark Rober)
• A Talking Dog!? The Border Collie With an IQ of 102 (50 min, Real Wild)
• Prey Outsmarts Predator In Near-Death Escapes | Wild America (57 min, Real Wild)
• Stoned Ape & Fungal Intelligence - Paul Stamets (11 min, After Skool)
• Nature’s Smartest Animals | Wildest Survival (48 min, Free Documentary - Nature)
• The Intelligence Test Where Ants Beat Humans (16 min, Be Smart)
• Animal's Super Senses - The Sixth Sense (25 min, Free Documentary - Nature)
• School Fight: Alpha Male Hits Beni | Orangutan Jungle School 303+304 (100 min, Love Nature)
• The Start of a New Chapter | Orangutan Jungle School 301 (50 min, Love Nature)
• Survival In The Dark: The Nighttime Adaptations Of Predators | Super Senses (77 min, Real Wild)
• The Evolutionary Purpose of Fun (10 min, Be Smart)
• Animal's Super Senses - Sight (26 min, Free Documentary - Nature)
• Brian Cox On The Question Of Intelligent Life In The Universe (59 min, Spark)
• Could AI Become More Intelligent Than Humans? | Future Human A.I. (48 min, Spark)
• What Caused The Sudden Explosion of Human Intelligence 60,000 Years Ago? (50 min, Wonder)
• Animal's Super Senses - The Earth (26 min, Free Documentary - Nature)
• Animal's Super Senses - Superhuman Senses (27 min, Free Documentary - Nature)
• Who Has The Most Powerful Sense Of Smell In The Animal Kingdom? | Super Senses (52 min, Real Wild)
• Animal's Super Senses - The Most Amazing Senses (26 min, Free Documentary - Nature)
• Animal's Super Senses - Communication (26 min, Free Documentary - Nature)
• First Day of School: Orangutan Edition! | Orangutan Jungle School 301+302 (100 min, Love Nature)
• Baby Topan's First Day of Jungle School! | Becoming Orangutan 101 (149 min, Love Nature)
• The Most Intelligent Animals On Earth | Wild Ones (26 min, Real Wild)
• Nature's Most Amazing Animal Superpowers (8 min, Be Smart)
• Why You Should Pretend to Be Less Intelligent than You Are (12 min, Academy of Ideas)
• Men Have 10% Larger Brains, But Are They More Intelligent? (59 min, Spark)
• David Mitchell’s Funny Shakespeare Moments! | Upstart Crow (23 min, BBC Studios)
• Is There Intelligent Life On Other Planets? (8 min, Be Smart)
• Kea: The World's Most Intelligent Parrot? (96 min, Real Wild)
• Should We Be Afraid of Artificial Intelligence? (9 min, After Skool)
• The Best Bits of Season 2! | Upstart Crow (23 min, BBC Studios)
• I Put ChatGPT 5’s ‘PhD Intelligence’ to the Test (14 min, BrainCraft)

Top-Rated Books About Animal Intelligence

1. Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans de Waal (4.1/5) - View on Amazon
2. An Immense World by Ed Yong - View on Amazon
3. Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith (3.7/5) - View on Amazon
4. Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery (4.1/5) - View on Amazon
5. The intelligence of dogs by Stanley Coren - View on Amazon