Although it has always seemed obvious to me that animals have emotions and complex personalities, it’s taken the scientific community a long time to reach that conclusion. This article describes new findings in the field of animal behavior which indicate that not only do animals have emotions, but they also have a level of ethics, fair-play and morality that was previously thought to be impossible.
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Monkeys Exhibit Market Behavior
Fascinating Time article on how the social interactions of animals contain many of the same characteristics as those of humans. An excerpt: In one of De Waal’s experiments at Atlanta’s Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center, for example, pairs of capu…
Monkeys Exhibit Market Behavior
Fascinating Time article on how the social interactions of animals contain many of the same characteristics as those of humans. An excerpt: In one of De Waal’s experiments at Atlanta’s Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center, for example, pairs of capu…