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Rasa malu sukar untuk diperhatikan. Secara definisi, ia adalah perasaan yang cuba disembunyikan oleh seseorang. Tetapi ahli primatologi terkenal dunia Jane Goodall percaya dia telah melihat apa yang boleh dipanggil memalukan pada cimpanzi.
Fifi ialah cimpanzi betina yang Jane kenali selama lebih 40 tahun. Apabila anak sulung Fifi, Freud, berumur lima setengah tahun, bapa saudaranya, abang Fifi, Figan, adalah lelaki alfa dalam komuniti cimpanzi mereka. Freud sentiasa mengikut Figan seolah-olah dia menyembah jantan besar itu.
Suatu ketika, ketika Fifi merapikan Figan, Freud memanjat batang nipis pisang liar. Apabila dia mencapai mahkota berdaun, dia mula bergoyang liar ke sana ke mari. Kalaulah dia anak manusia, kita akan kata dia menunjuk-nunjuk. Tiba-tiba batangnya patah dan Freud jatuh ke dalam rumput panjang. Dia tidak cedera. Dia mendarat dekat dengan Jane, dan ketika kepalanya keluar dari rumput dia melihat dia melihat ke arah Figan. Adakah dia perasan? Jika ada, dia tidak mempedulikan tetapi terus didandani. Freud sangat senyap memanjat pokok lain dan mula memberi makan.
Ahli psikologi Universiti Harvard Marc Hauser memerhatikan apa yang boleh dipanggil rasa malu pada monyet rhesus jantan. Selepas mengawan dengan betina, jantan itu terkeluar dan secara tidak sengaja terjatuh ke dalam parit. Dia berdiri dan cepat-cepat melihat sekeliling. Selepas merasakan bahawa tiada monyet lain melihatnya jatuh, dia berarak, ke belakang tinggi, kepala dan ekor ke atas, seolah-olah tiada apa-apa yang berlaku.
Penyelamat Haiwan: Rasa Belas Kasihan kepada Mereka yang Memerlukan
Cerita tentang haiwan yang menyelamatkan ahli spesies mereka sendiri dan spesies lain, termasuk manusia, banyak terdapat. Mereka menunjukkan bagaimana individu dari spesies yang berbeza menunjukkan belas kasihan dan empati kepada mereka yang memerlukan.
Di Torquay, Australia, selepas ibu kanggaru dilanggar kereta, seekor anjing menemui bayi joey di dalam kantungnya dan membawanya kepada pemiliknya yang menjaga anak itu. Anjing berusia 10 tahun dan joey berusia 4 bulan akhirnya menjadi kawan baik.
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Di sebuah pantai di New Zealand, seekor ikan lumba-lumba datang menyelamatkan dua ekor ikan paus sperma kerdil yang terdampar di belakang jeriji pasir. Selepas orang sia-sia cuba memasukkan ikan paus ke dalam air yang lebih dalam, ikan lumba-lumba itu muncul dan kedua-dua ikan paus itu mengikutinya kembali ke lautan.
Anjing juga dikenali kerana membantu mereka yang memerlukan. Seekor kambing pit bull yang hilang memecah cubaan merompak seorang wanita yang meninggalkan taman permainan bersama anaknya di Port Charlotte, Florida. Seorang pegawai kawalan haiwan berkata adalah jelas anjing itu cuba mempertahankan wanita itu, yang tidak dikenalinya. Dan di luar Buenos Aires, Argentina, seekor anjing menyelamatkan bayi yang ditinggalkan dengan meletakkannya dengan selamat di antara anak anjingnya yang baru lahir. Hebatnya, anjing itu membawa bayi itu kira-kira 150 kaki ke tempat anak-anak anjingnya berbaring selepas menemui bayi itu ditutupi kain buruk di padang.
Raven Justice?
Dalam bukunya, Mind of the Raven , ahli biologi dan pakar gagak Bernd Heinrich memerhatikan bahawa burung gagak mengingati individu yang secara konsisten menyerbu tembolok mereka jika mereka menangkapnya dalam perbuatan itu. Kadang-kadang burung gagak akan menyertai serangan ke atas penceroboh walaupun dia tidak melihat tembolok diserbu.
Adakah ini bermoral? Heinrich nampaknya berfikir begitu. Dia berkata mengenai tingkah laku ini, "Ia adalah burung gagak moral yang mencari keadilan yang setara dengan manusia, kerana ia mempertahankan kepentingan kumpulan dengan kemungkinan kos untuk dirinya sendiri."
Dalam eksperimen seterusnya, Heinrich mengesahkan bahawa minat kumpulan boleh mendorong apa yang diputuskan oleh gagak individu. Burung gagak dan banyak haiwan lain hidup mengikut norma sosial yang memihak kepada keadilan dan keadilan.
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We who 'know' always knew the animal kindom were far more aware than the controlling factions wanted us to believe....we felt their suffering, we shared their love, we understood their unspoken language. God truly exists in all living things. Very nice article - thanks for sharing!
When I was 12 years old, my horse had a stroke and had to be put down. I looked out the window at his body, lifeless and lying in the corral. I watched as Socks, the matriarch of the barn cats, walked towards the body, followed by a single-file line of the other dozen-or-so kittens and cats. Watching from inside the house I thought, "Oh no, they're going to eat him." But I didn't interrupt. When the slow parade reached the body, the cats sat down about two feet away, in an arc, smelling and looking. After some time Socks stood up, turned around and walked back to the barn, followed in orderly procession by the others.
Even 30 years later I am touched by this memory.
This horse (Bourbon Jim was his name) had been a huge high-strung Thoroughbred, but he was gentle and considerate with the cats. Once when I came home from school I found three kittens on his back. I couldn't figure how they got up there. This kept happening until one day I saw: The little kittens, with their sharp little kitten claws, were climbing up his front legs and up over his sides to sit atop his back. Bourbon didn't even flinch.
[Hide Full Comment]Thank you for dispelling the myth we have all been told. Everything we do influences every living being. It is time we all kept ourselves conscious of this. Thank you so much!
About the same time we adopted the silver-grey kitten, Griffin, we also adopted a white rabbit, Angel. They were kit and kitten together and played all summer in the back yard. Angel was a house-rabbit. In the fall, I bunny-proofed my office for him, and put a baby-gate at the door, so he couldn't get to the rest of the house. Since I don't like the cold, Angel didn't get to go out much, but Griffin continued to play with him inside.
In the early spring, Griffin once showed up at the back door with a huge pile of leaves in his mouth, bigger than his head. He zipped right by me and took off down the hall toward my office. Griffin jumped over the gate and ran to the bunny. I was freaking out, thinking he had a mouse in his mouth along with all those leaves. But no, he just dumped the leaves on the floor in front of Angel. No mouse, thankfully. Then Griffin waited for Angel to react. I think the bunny was as confused as me. So Griffin rolled in the leaves, with his belly in the air. I could almost hear him saying: "Since you couldn’t come outside with me, I brought spring in to you." And Angel jumped in the leaves with him.
[Hide Full Comment]How lovely. Animals are the best of teachers. They live lovingly and ask so little in return. Surely there are animals in heaven. Would it be heaven if there were no animals? Perhaps all beings who are loved, animal and human with join after this life on planet earth is complete for for a magnificent heavenly reunion, and we will continue our work and play in the presence of the great I AM.
Yes Animals are intelligent and have emotional lives but that does not mean I have to love all dogs or all other animals. Some of them are simply unlovable, just like some humans. The pitbulls who killed the six year old boy coming back from school in switzerland were certainly not lovable.
It is only the arrogant among us who claim a special status for our own, based on such superficial considerations as ethnicity, culture, color of skin, gender or having a human body.
The compassionate have always known that we are all children of the same source. We are unique and different in many ways but that does not make us superior than others.
We need no scientific research to tell us this fundamental truth.
AN EXCELLENT AND VERY KNOWLEDGABLE ARTICLE WHICH HAS INDEED CHANGED THE WAY OF THINKING ABOUT ANIMALS
EDWARD
DELHI (INDIA)
I always said animals are way better then humans! Loyality, unconditional love and they never intentionally break our hearts. God sent them here so would we know good.
where are the citations/references for the scientific research?
Yes, I agree with the comment of Womanswork below: as someone who spends the majority of their time with eight companion animals, including a parrot, I can attest to the fact that they exhibit feelings of joy, sadness, insecurity, jealousy and envy, among a range of other emotions. And the best thing is, they don't hide these feelings; they're writ large for all to see, if in fact one is willing to see...it's so much better than the emotional dissembling of humans.
Oh my, if only animals could use "words" and tell us more ......perhaps then we would listen....we dont seem to hear their needs at all by their body language etc....How "dumb" are we humans really, when we dont treat our fellow creatures with more respect , love and appreciation,
I have watched my grandsons dalmation watch my grandsons shadow to see "where" he is going to throw the ball that he is hiding behind his back....I tested him 3 times couldnt believe his intelligence , how pathetic of me!!!!!!
How DO we get people to understand this about animals? I do not know. thank you for sharing all this wonderful information.....
Finally, Science is catching up to what I and many others have known forever! To think animals don't feel or think is the height of elitism
When I take my morning walks and observe nature I often think we are at the bottom of the chain. I am in awe of trees. The are so present they no longer need to move. They feed themselves from above and below and in the fall the leaves they shed create more nutrients for themselves and others.