A dozen chimpanzees, not known for being still or quiet, watch in silence as a dead (heart attack) “prominent figure” from their group is wheeled away:
Dr. Marc Bekoff, of the University of Colorado, says:
That animals and humans share many traits including emotions is merely an extension of Charles Darwin’s accepted ideas about evolutionary continuity, that the differences between species are differences in degree rather than differences in kind. The seemingly natural human urge to impart emotions on to animals, far from obscuring the “true” nature of animals, may actually reflect a very accurate way of knowing.
