Yes, Animals Think And Feel. Here’s How We Know

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The author of a new book also says that animals can feel empathy, like the humpback whale that rescued a seal.
By Simon Worrall

PUBLISHED JULY 15, 2015

Sourcehttp://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/07/150714-animal-dog-thinking-feelings-brain-science/#

Keeper Julius Latoya shares a tender moment with Kinna, a young orphaned African Elephant at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Tsavo East National Park, Kenya. PHOTOGRAPH BY GERRY ELLIS, MINDEN PICTURES
Do animals feel empathy? Does an elephant have consciousness? Can a dog plan ahead? These are some of the questions that award-winning environmental writer Carl Safina teases out in his new book, Beyond Words: How Animals Think and Feel.

Ranging far and wide across the world, from the Ambroseli National Park in Kenya to the Pacific Northwest, he shows us why it is important to acknowledge consciousness in animals and how exciting new discoveries about the brain are breaking down barriers between us and other non-human animals.

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1 thought on “Yes, Animals Think And Feel. Here’s How We Know”

  1. It’s astonishing to me that anyone would be unaware that animals think and feel. Those who kill them either justify their actions by their “God”-given right to dominate and destroy others, or they are defective emotionally and lack empathy — in other words, harbor sociopathic/psychopathic characteristics and tendencies. I don’t know which is worse. I consider both categories to be deformed, repulsive, dangerous to us all, and entirely worthy of being treated like the pariahs and outcasts they are.

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