What We Should Know About Animals
It's easy to assume that animals experience happiness (just think of a
dog wagging its tail), but what about higher-level emotions and
qualities like selflessness, empathy, or even love? In "Beyond Words:
How Animals Think and Feel," conservationist Carl Safina shares stories
from decades of observing animals and combines it with new brain
research to paint a picture of animals' emotional landscape that sounds
remarkably like our own. In this interview, he shares a story about a
wolf who selflessly tries to distract other wolves from attacking his
sister, and a whale who saves a seal. He also suggests that animals'
experience of life is not a limited version of our own, but rather a
more vivid one. These theories are just part of a growing body of
evidence that there is much more to our living environment than
previously thought, and knowing this, we cannot continue on the same
path.
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/07/150714-animal-dog-thinking-feelings-brain-science/
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/07/150714-animal-dog-thinking-feelings-brain-science/