She looked back, unfolded her hands from my neck, and then swatted the male on the head. He jumped back, climbing to a branch on the opposite side of the cage. She then put her arms back through the cage and resumed the position. He and his veterinarian wife own a dog, two cats, fish, and two rabbits, whom they say they love despite their view that the love they give may not be the same as what they receive. It's this capacity for mental restraint that makes us uniquely responsible for what we do.
Humans alone create a moral world.
Wild Minds is likely to cause controversy. When Elephants Weep, by independent scholar Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson '64, Ph.D. '71, and Animal Liberation, by ethicist Peter Singer, who bases his calls for legal rights for animals on what he claims is their uncanny similarity to humans. These researchers contend that because animals have no language, they cannot think. Hauser does not claim to know how animals think, or why they act as they do. What he seeks is an open-minded inquiry into their behavior.