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Wild elephants walking along a path stop and spontaneously try to protect and assist a weak and dying fellow elephant. Laboratory rats, finding other rats caged nearby in distressing circumstances, proceed to save them. A chimpanzee in a zoo loses his own life hoping to save lots of an unrelated newborn who has fallen into a watery moat. The good examples above and many others, argues Dale Peterson, show that our fellow animals have powerful impulses toward co-operation, generosity, and fairness. Yet it is commonly held that people Homo sapiens are the only pets with a moral sense - that people are somehow above and apart from our fellow animals. This rigorous and stimulating booklet challenges that idea, and it shows the serious relationships - the moral continuum - that website link humans to numerous other varieties. Peterson shows how much canine behavior follows concepts embodied in humanity's historic moral codes, from the Ten Commandments to the New Testament. Understanding the moral lives of pets offers new understanding into our own. Dale Peterson's biography Jane Goodall: THE GIRL Who Redefined Man was a New York Times Publication Review Notable Publication and Boston Globe Best Publication of 2006. His other publications include Visions of Caliban (with Jane Goodall) and Demonic Men (with Richard Wrangham). Peterson lectures in English at Tufts University.
