The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief, and Compassion—Surprising Observations of a Hidden World

we may be inferior to whales, bats, tigers and pelicans at least in some emotional and experiential domains.

describing animal states in human language can go awry in two related ways: we can diminish the soaring uniqueness of other species and individuals when we assume they are intelligent only to the extent that we can perceive in them humanlike ways of knowing and feeling; and we can fail to recognize or even imagine the breadth of unique animal intel