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| Sunday, November 1, 2009 12:41PM | | | | Fairness to the Rabbit and the Wolf | Tags: Wild Justice. Marc Bekoff, Jessica Pierce, wolves, ravens, morality
| | | | In their splendid book Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals, Marc Bekoff and Jessica Pierce argue that animals have a morality, in that their behavior is governed by codes based on moral qualities such as "forgiveness, fairness, retribution, reciprocity, and empathy." They generally assume, however, that animal morality is species-specific, and that may not necessarily be the case. People have, and have always had, moral precepts governing our interaction with animals and the environment, even if these are usually harder to formulate than those that concern interaction with other human beings. Animals often, perhaps invariably, live in symbiotic relations with other species. As Lawrence Kilham has documented, wolves and ravens not only hunt cooperatively but even sing together. And if both the pack of... | | | | | |
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