What are the key similarities and differences between humans and non-human animals?
I feel that humans and non-human animals are surprisingly similar in the range of emotions they experience and exhibit including happiness, mischieveness, compassion, contentment, humour, awareness, pain, panic, and grief. Many non-human animals have evolved social networks similar to humans, a fact ignored when animals are captured and thrown into concrete tanks to live a miserable existence or made to perform in circuses or kept in zoo’s – all in the name of ‘entertainment’ or ‘education’. For me, non-human animals are far more superior to humans in that they have lived in harmony on the planet for millions of years. Animals are true carnivores as they pounce on their prey and eat it at body temperature whilst humans are better described as necrovores, or eaters of rotting flesh, similar to vultures, because the time involved between killing an animal and eating it could be an hour or it could be years. Why is compassion towards animals a good thing for us as humans? If we can take o
