I think it’s more like if they asked her “do you support gay rights?” And then she answered “I’m a rules utilitarian”. Like, that doesn’t answer the fucking question. And in this case it’s clear that she was reluctant to identify as feminist because she feels like it’s a dirty word or something.

I particularly disliked the tone of this article, which felt like "It's a gorilla. It's not a big deal". In actuality, we don't know animals as extensively as we think we do.

This. I never understand why so many people who understand concepts of evolution and adaptation somehow think humans developed consciousness and emotions together independently and that such complex things would have developed rather suddenly (in a sense for no part of these things to have developed in ancestors…

When I was 8 or 9, I stood on a chair and yelled at my hebrew school principal for a while because he insisted that "animals don't have souls."

Elephants definitely do mourn their dead friends, often returning to the places where another elephant that they had known died. There have been many studies researching this behavior. From what I've seen there is no scientific hypothesis that can explain this behavior other than elephants do in fact experience grief,…