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Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

“When we do it, it is for art. When they [animals] do it, it is for competition. Both may be true. What is disturbing and irrational is the decision to explain human behavior in spiritual terms of a sense of beauty, and animal behavior in mechanistic terms of demonstrating fitness. The object, yet again, seems to be to define humans as higher and unique.”

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals
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When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
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