Nonhuman Animals Possess A Sense Of Morality
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A new book cites the evidence:
Prof Marc Bekoff, an ecologist at University of Colorado, Boulder, believes that morals are “hard-wired” into the brains of all mammals and provide the “social glue” that allow often aggressive and competitive animals to live together in groups.
He has compiled evidence from around the world that shows how different species of animals appear to have an innate sense of fairness, display empathy and help other animals that are in distress.
To read the entire article, go here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/5373379/Animals-can-tell-right-from-wrong.html
The book, by the way, is Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals by Marc Bekoff and Jessica Pierce.
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*The above image comes from a campaign to improve human’s morality and isn’t directly related to Bekoff or nonhuman morality. I chose it because I think it conveys the same underlying concept: we are more alike than different.
“…we are more alike than different.” Yes, in everything that really matters.
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