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kentuck

(111,111 posts) Tue Jan 19, 2016, 04:32 PM Jan 2016

For animal lovers: (from Facebook)

https://www.facebook.com/ceylonmoors/videos/905808036155445/

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For animal lovers: (from Facebook) (Original Post) kentuck Jan 2016 OP

smarter than most any Republican I've ever met.... hlthe2b Jan 2016 #1

that is awesome! tk2kewl Jan 2016 #2

I have loved studying animals my whole life... Bigmack Jan 2016 #3

Awesome! Solly Mack Jan 2016 #4

hlthe2b

(102,496 posts)

1. smarter than most any Republican I've ever met....

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Tue Jan 19, 2016, 04:37 PM

Jan 2016

Seriously, I just love orangutan and other NH primates. They never cease to amaze me and I already acknowledge how little we appreciate the intelligence of other non-human animals.

tk2kewl

(18,133 posts)

2. that is awesome!

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Tue Jan 19, 2016, 04:37 PM

Jan 2016

thanks

Bigmack

(8,020 posts)

3. I have loved studying animals my whole life...

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Tue Jan 19, 2016, 05:22 PM

Jan 2016

... but some of the things I read now, and some of the videos I see now are shaking my whole view of the other animals.

They are a LOT more intelligent and sentient than I ever suspected.

How can an animal have a "personality" when it's not a "person"? How can "lesser" animals have emotions? How can animals use problem-solving skills and deductive reasoning?.... those skills are supposed to be only for us humans?

We're going to have to change our entire view of the other animals around us.

Solly Mack

(90,799 posts)

4. Awesome!

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Tue Jan 19, 2016, 05:25 PM

Jan 2016

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