"Honor Among Beasts" - Time Magazine

[livinginphotographs]

Good article from Time this week:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1079521,00.html

[Catchawave]

1. Thanks !

Those related article links that followed were pretty good too !

[CrispyQ]

2. Great article! Thanks for posting.

snip...

Only a decade or so ago, scientists were arguing vigorously over whether animals had emotions: just because a dog looks sad or a chimp appears to be embarrassed doesn't mean it really is, the skeptics said. That argument is pretty much over. The idea of animal emotion is now accepted as part of mainstream biology.

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Have these people ever lived with an animal???

I really liked this one:

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In another experiment, De Waal and his students reward two monkeys for a task by giving them cucumber. It's not a favorite food, but they happily go on doing the task anyway. Then the scientists begin giving one of the monkeys grapes--like caviar for a capuchin. At that point, the monkey that is still getting cucumber refuses to play. Says De Waal: "It's like me discovering my colleague, who works just as hard as I do, gets a salary that is twice the size of mine. I was perfectly happy before."

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So many times I've been the monkey with the cucumber.