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People who love animals are often accused of indulging in the logical fallacies of sentimentalism or anthropomorphism. /…/ these people (accusing ones) were suffering from another kind of fallacy, a psychological one known as confirmation bias /…/. Against all the evidence, even that provided by their own eyes, these people convince themselves that animals feel nothing at all. (p. 144)

For too long animals in general, and birds in particular, have been denigrated and treated merely as creatures of instinct rather than as sentient beings. (p. 64)