A three-month-old earlier this month, died at his mother's lap. Gan mother for hours, slowly shook his son Claudio stroked, apparently offer his head back in the arms hanging limp and trying. People saw that has been moved to tears - the fact that Claudio and at the zoo in Münster "only" winning gorilla distraught, North Germany.It only witnesses who were transferred was not. A British woman who posted online about the loss of the Order read this comment: "another mother's first match - win, you're in my thoughts my baby had died in June last year and not any form of life like .. " Some, to be fair, they reacted differently. A newspaper writer said bluntly, if we are "too fast for animals to project human emotions." However, Dr Bill Sellers, Manchester, pain and gorillas to humans in a similar way a primatologist at the University of lack of experience is a believer, but of course it's hard to scientifically prove. "

As Einstein said, "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that counts can be counted." Only a few years ago, doctors anesthesia is given to children, believing that there is no pain. In this case, the emotional capacity of animals - in - scientists did not consider whether clear and appropriate, the rest of us can think about, especially by focusing on the details. Scientific expertise in the world a little bit like a football game at night, focus should be together to look like light bulbs, instead. If animals have feelings, can we justify ogling at the zoo? Many commented that the story of a hard line against the science to make trouble to ask "experts" can be so stupid as Rush was. "Are you with the name of a cow for the day when their calves are removed listening? Did not say" one asked. And loss of human companions - the death of others by their own species "sad" to be described as cats and dogs. Head turn to the question of doubt in these people: "Are we slow to recognize that animals have feelings is not?"

The question is central to our way of life. Or at all - if animals have emotions, it's too much for them to laboratories, zoos and justify ogling of intensive farming is difficult to use. Scientists at two camps this fall, try to solve. Behavior seems to accept the test results, rejecting any suggestion that animals think about unproven, or are even capable of feeling. Behavioral scientists, however, study and observation, anecdote and personal observation are ready to conclude.