Anyone who has access to a computer has probably received forwards from friends and family that highlight Internet's favorite horse, Patches. I think all of us have witnessed emotion in animals, whether it is a dog's love or a cat's disdain (Sorry, cat lovers - I'm a dog person myself).Animal emotion goes further than that. They enjoy pleasure, including sex and chemical imbalances from time to time. The "documentary" Animals are Beautiful People has a specific segment on mammals eating fermented fruit for a buzz. They can even have anti-evolutionary motherly instincts.
Tonight, the author of Pleasurable Kingdom will be at the New York Bird Club to talk about human-like animal behaviors and the need to treat animals more ethically. Maybe we won't move to a Patches-based relationship with all of Earth's creatures, but we could definitely move toward a more ethical standard of living.
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