Although frogs and lizards, and especially codfish, do not inspire me with a great deal of conviction that there is necessarily ‘someone there’ peering back at me when I look at them, the impression of a ‘conscious presence’ is indeed very strong with me when I look at a dog or a cat or, especially, when an ape or monkey in the zoo looks at me. I do not demand that they feel as 1 do, nor even that there is much sophistication about what they feel.
