 This is further evidenced in Sara Shettleworth’s work.A Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Toronto, Shettleworth maintains the most exciting part of current study in animal cognition is detail and subtlety in the human picture of “how other species minds are both like and not like ours.”

Emeritus Professor in Animal Behaviour at University of New England, Gisela Kaplan noted the consolatory behaviour of Australian Magpies post conflict exhibited behaviour similar to the image seen in Darwin's crouching dog (figure 6 above), in "The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals.