AR Philosophy > Morality of AR > Speciesism - Index  August 30,
2005 Animals' Feelings  In 350 B.C., Aristotle found evidence of
emotion in animals. "Some are good-tempered, sluggish, and
little prone to ferocity, as the ox; others are quick-tempered,
ferocious, and unteachable, as the wild boar," he wrote in The
History of Animals.  Today, the proposition that animals share
some of the same feelings as man -- actually experiencing pain,
grief, and joy -- is winning more advocates. And animal rights
activists point to that concept as a concrete reason to end
man's exploitation of animals. The reformers are getting help
from biologist Marc Bekoff, of the University of Colorado, who
has compiled a new book, The Smile of the Dolphin, (Discovery
Books/Random House, $35) in which dozens of animal researchers
explain why they believe animals have emotions.  The Grieving
Chimp  In one chapter, primate expert Jane Goodall recounts the
grief experienced by a chimpanzee child named Flint after his
mother, Flo, died in