sentience

Orangutan directs zoo visitor to the sweets

Orangutan asks zoo visitors for sweets and he’s smarter than the humans

My God, these humans are slow. The orangutan who is trying to direct them to hand over some sweets is smarter than the humans or at least in this episode he acts as if he is. The ape has it all worked out. He has a workable plan. The humans are fumbling their way forward. …

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Apes copy (imitate) human actions

Apes copied humans fighting at a Beijing zoo

OPINION: The story is that a group of visitors to a zoo in Beijing, China – the Beijing Wildlife Park – started to physically fight, including women as you can see in the infographic below. It was over a triviality but what is not trivial is that the gorillas in an enclosure nearby began to …

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Chimp siblings embrace on reuniting

Watch this video and think of animal sentience not ‘us and them’

Don’t think of ‘us and them’. Don’t be so arrogant as humans often are and think that we are superior to animals. This leads to abuse and exploitation. This is a beauty of a little video. So touching. So meaningful. Although they must have been separated. Was there a good reason for it? They are …

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Two useful tags. Click either to see the articles: Speciesism - 'them and us' | Cruelty - always shameful

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