Is madness peculiar to man?

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Animal follies © Le Pommier

By: Caroline Lachowsky

Is madness peculiar to man?

Can other animals be or go mad?

What is madness and why is it so well shared?

Meeting with a pioneer of zoo-psychiatry 

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Let us stop on the floor of the cows (mad or not) to ask ourselves strange questions about madness and animal follies.

Is madness peculiar to man?

And how far can other animals also be naturally mad or become so by hanging out with us too much? 

With

Michel Kreutzer

ethologist for his book

Folies Animales

published by Editions du Pommier

And the Chronicle of Sylvain Bouley with Astronomie Afrique,

Ciel d'Afrique

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Congratulations to our new astronomical telescope winner,

Tolno Jacob

from Conakry 

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