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The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief, and Compassion: Surprising Observations of a Hidden World
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“Y es que no hay que humanizar en absoluto a los animales, sino únicamente entenderlos mejor; porque estas comparaciones son sobre todo para entender que los animales no son criaturas estúpidas que se hayan quedado notablemente por debajo de nosotros desde un punto de vista evolutivo, y sólo hayan recibido apagadas versiones de nuestra rica paleta en lo relativo al dolor y demás.”
― The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief, and Compassion: Surprising Observations of a Hidden World
― The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief, and Compassion: Surprising Observations of a Hidden World
“In Ordnung, ein Labyrinth zu knacken, ohne ein Gehirn zu haben, das ist schon eine Leistung.”
― Das Seelenleben der Tiere: Liebe, Trauer, Mitgefühl - erstaunliche Einblicke in eine verborgene Welt
― Das Seelenleben der Tiere: Liebe, Trauer, Mitgefühl - erstaunliche Einblicke in eine verborgene Welt
“The goal is not to anthropomorphize animals but to help us understand them better. Most importantly, these comparisons serve to point out that animals are not dimwitted creatures clearly stuck a level below us on the evolutionary scale, creatures that experience only pale imitations of our rich range of sensations for pain and other such feelings. No. People who understand that deer, wild boar, and ravens lead their own lives, perfect in their own way, and have a lot of fun while they’re at it, might even respect animals as insignificant as the tiny weevils that rummage around contented and happy in the leaf litter of ancient forests.”
― The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief, and Compassion—Surprising Observations of a Hidden World
― The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief, and Compassion—Surprising Observations of a Hidden World
“If we really are the most intelligent species on Earth—and I believe we are—why didn’t science approach this from the other direction a long time ago? Why are years spent painstakingly teaching lab animals sign language if modern researchers believe that their capacity to learn is less than ours? Wouldn’t it be much easier if we finally began to learn the language of animals?”
― The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief, and Compassion—Surprising Observations of a Hidden World
― The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief, and Compassion—Surprising Observations of a Hidden World
“because communication between people and animals will always be very one sided. People try to teach other species human language.”
― The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief, and Compassion—Surprising Observations of a Hidden World
― The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief, and Compassion—Surprising Observations of a Hidden World
“I find it endlessly fascinating when I think that every species of animal may see and feel the world in a completely different way, so you could say there are hundreds of thousands of different worlds out there.”
― The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief, and Compassion—Surprising Observations of a Hidden World
― The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief, and Compassion—Surprising Observations of a Hidden World
“Si de verdad somos la especie más inteligente de este planeta -algo que presupongo-, ¿entonces por qué la ciencia no recorrió hace tiempo el camino inverso? ¿Por qué esforzarse durante años en enseñar tediosos signos a animales de laboratorio, animales cuya capacidad de aprendizaje, de acuerdo con el estado actual de la investigación, es inferior a la nuestra? ¿No sería mucho más sencillo que nosotros mismos empezásemos al fin a aprender el lenguaje animal?”
― The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief, and Compassion: Surprising Observations of a Hidden World
― The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief, and Compassion: Surprising Observations of a Hidden World
“La ciencia es contraria a la sensibilidad de los animales hasta que ésta ya no pueda negarse. ¿No sería mejor argumentar, por si acaso, lo contrario, para no maltratar innecesariamente a los animales?”
― La vida interior de los animales
― La vida interior de los animales
