I don’t know where you come from, I don’t know about you – but that has nothing to say.
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Finding animal videos stupid is the cheapest sport since the invention of the Internet. They are clicked on YouTube or sent back and forth as Instagram reels. Many of them are banal to shit, an incredible number of misunderstood pets depict, but are found incredibly cute. Hundreds of thousands of super-caught comments, in turn, reflect the stupidity of the people who recognize something like human babies in animals and treat every expression and action of their kitten or their agony as a cute-life observation, also under the premise: Wauzi love yes and mistress so much.
Much of it is a plague.
And then there are these moments. These short videos, often just a few seconds, who question everything. That touch us. Inspire. And that make us more thoughtful than the last contemporary novels, Bundesligarism, collective bargaining.
A man and a chimpanzee run through a zoo area with a climbing frame. The chimpanzees scrambled up with ease. Then he turns around, pulls the man up, wants to continue on the top, but turns around again. And man and chimpanzees clap, fist against Faust, like real buddies, fistbump!
Somewhere in the forest. The coyote is waiting for his friend, the badger. Only then do they go through the tunnel together.
A heron stands unemployed on a bank. Next to him hops and fidgets a fish that misses the water. The heron looks at it for a few seconds. Then he grabs the fish with his beak and brings it a few meters to the front, where the water is deeper. Then the fish floats away.
(No, these are not all films that have been there lately, but they are all older.)
A chicken and a dog chase around a large stack of wood, left, right, wait, the dog the chicken, the chicken the dog. The two have the fun of their lives.
In the Arctic, a few thickly wrapped researchers chug along with their small motor ship between imposing icebergs, as Seuschiffs appears a Belugawal, which is a kind of white dolphin with a short snout. There is a short communication between one of the researchers on deck and the whale. The man can be given a football, whatever the time on board. Then he does what you do with a football: as far as he can, throws him out to the Arctic Sea. And the Beluga does what every terrier would do: starts. To get the ball. Elegant and super fast he reaches the ball, fetches it, swimming to the boat, which is in full speed. Then he hands the football. So that it is thrown again.
Can animals be our friends?
Animals are things. Believe this is a business basis of our successful civilizations. To treat animals as a raw mass, as a food on legs, as a means of transport that are operated with oats. Hundreds of millions of animals were kept in tight stables and cages and then slaughtered when they were ripe; And over thousands of years, their guards avoided looking them in the eyes. Some animals were made to companions, more forced to the domestic cats, or they willingly fit into a pack of strange bipeds, like the dogs.
If you ask the owners or packs of packs of such pets, there is no doubt. That they have feelings. Faithful and fully exuberant love the one, true friends; Rather divisive the others, but undoubtedly character. That you can easily make a small piglet an equally loyal, loving, playful house mate like a dog – better not think about it.
Now thinking is not our strong side anyway. It is easily possible for humans to get information and then snap again if necessary. For example, I was asked the other day whether I eat meat and I was able to confess in all contradiction: I would immediately sign every law that prohibits factory farming and punishes meat consumption. However, if I am invited to a few Franconian rust sausages with mashed potatoes and sauerkraut, I cannot say no. The factory farming and the murder business of the slaughterhouses that take place far from our residential buildings allow us to think the sausage as its own thing. We never got to know the pig we chew.
Humanity has brought it so far – with eight billion individuals, with the extensive submission, transforming and usable of the planet – by talking to it: This is okay. The Bible already says that we should make all the stuff subject. Since Descartes, science has been saying that animals are biological devices, subject to our will to use such as clock, loom and combine harvester.
But we feel that it is not true. Philosophers and scientists have done everything possible to draw a separation between us and the other animals. Their thinking ability has been used, which is not comparable to ours. The concept of “consciousness” has been used without ever being able to define it or excluding it for animals. Districts of clever people talked baseful to jump off the knowledge: the other mammals, the other mammals, they could be our friends. We can empathize with you. Treating them as a food, bunkering them up, stuffing with medication, killing them is wrong.
Why should thinking or a pronounced self-awareness of the joker against objectification and cruelty? Shouldn’t it be the ability to suffer from a living being? If it is our decision to inflict or save him? Don’t say a quiet voice in us that the other mammals are our relatives and earn our respect? Should one deny, bury and hide their empathy forever?
In an extremely popular video of a nightly forest surveillance camera you can see a coy and a badger around together. They are clearly on the go as buddies. They come to a concrete tube that serves as a tunnel. The coyote was a bit faster with its long legs, but it is waiting for the badger. Together they go through the tube.
A squirrel deposits a biscuit for the woman on the doorstep, which always brings nuts to the squirrel.
In a zoo in Belgium, the orangutans have become depressed because of pandemic. They lack the daily entertainment by the characters. A clever employee then opens the Orangutan enclosure for the Otter who live next door. The Otter have a lot of fun around, great around, and they make friends with the orangutans, in which the joie de vivre immediately returns.
A diver in the Caribbean helps sharks who come to her under water: the sharks have fat anglers in their mouths. They come to the diver and lock her shark mouth until the angler has turned the hook out and removed. Practice has been visited regularly for many years.
Friendship, what is it? Trust, what is it? Do you have to be particularly intelligent for this? Can we explain exactly why we let them in our heart and others not? Isn’t the best friendship where you can silence and enjoy the proximity of the other mammal and where intellect and I consciousness are not so terribly important?
Can animals be friends? Animals of different types?
It would have preferred science if something like this would not happen, because what evolutionary advantage can be interpreted in? In a simply resolved world, only the closely relatives, i.e. animals of a kind, still hold together: direct family members.
You have not been able to deny that these friendships beyond artificial limits, because too often it can be observed – in the apartments where dog and cat grow up together; In the farms, where the horses are happy when a goat is in the stable. So the excuse is often pulled out: something that is unnatural only happens in domesticated animals.
But does not. Chimpanzees and gorillas can form stable friendships, in the wild and despite food competition. Zebras and ostriches are happy to find together. Patchwork families of different bird species have been observed. A fairly famous California donkey called Diesel joined a herd of Wapiti deer a few years ago, which prove exemplary tolerance and openness to him.
As a representative of the species people, you don’t want to know these things for a long time. The instruction was always more practical: you are God’s favorite creature and can switch and act freely. You shouldn’t make yourself a head!
And, yes, you shouldn’t humanize animals. Conversely, however, it does not make sense to disempower people. Some of our noblest emotions may not be as exclusive as we would be so tasty because the rust sausages are so tasty. Looking at another animal with a mixture of curiosity, vigilance and sympathy – is that perhaps very deep inside us? Even if we are busy with the struggle for survival most of the time and can rarely show it? And what does this follow for our behavior towards the animals?
My best friend on the net has been a bear for some time. The bear can be seen in an animal video, not a minute. Somewhere in Canada or so he trots a lonely country road; Next to the street there is a pointed light -red hat for road margin markers. But the hat fell over. The bear on his way recognizes that something is wrong here. With a paw and head he tips the hat back into the upright, gives him a whole delicate last stupid with his snout so that it stops. Then that is regulated. The bear goes back to its bear paths. Who can affect him with affection?