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12. Actually recently more respect has been shown for animals.

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In the past scientists unscientifically decided arbitrarily that animals have no emotions and were simply "living machines". Now many are accepting the idea that the emotions exist, but their origins and importance are unknown. And like intelligence, emotions are difficult to quantify and study.
What is known is that many animals pass along behavior through learning and have a "culture" that can differ regionally within a species.
The books "The Emotional Lives of Animals" and "Zoo Story" do a much better job than I at explaining this and are just fun to read.