Koko the Gorilla, especially of interest to Sharla and Pacfan

[Sharla]

Pfft! The cat and the dog at my mum's house are best mates. They play together all the time.

The same can be said for the cat and dog at my bro's place. The kitten was wild and actually adopted them because it followed the dog home from a walk in the park over a km. Not my brother but the dog.

When the dog escapes from the yard the cat and the dog go adventuring together!

In the vid you posted Koko loves her kittens!

I heard about a story just recently where a dolphin helped guide 3 whales at risk of being beached out to deeper waters!

There are many examples of animals bonding with each other you just don't hear about them if you're not enough of an animal lover to be interested!

As for humans being given stewardship over the earth I also think that's crap. Humans don't have the knowledge or ability - and in the past this knowledge was even less than it is now - to make suitable decisions for the world as a whole.

We as all animals have the instinct of self preservation on an individaul and species level.

There are hospitals for animals - they are called veterinary clinics! We're just more worried about ourselves so we are willing to pay more money to train doctors to specialize in our own treatment.

Animals are not human but you don't have to think of them as being subhuman to admit that there is a food chain.

We're not at the top - there is no top really. We have parasites. We just eat what we do as do all other animals.

If you really want to get into it there are people living in the third world who don't have any better existance than some animals.

In the wild the instict for self preservation is stronger because the race for life is a harder one. That doesn't for a second mean that they are inferior.

[Kev]

Pfft! The cat and the dog at my mum's house are best mates. They play together all the time.

The same can be said for the cat and dog at my bro's place. The kitten was wild and actually adopted them because it followed the dog home from a walk in the park over a km. Not my brother but the dog.

When the dog escapes from the yard the cat and the dog go adventuring together!

In the vid you posted Koko loves her kittens!

I heard about a story just recently where a dolphin helped guide 3 whales at risk of being beached out to deeper waters!

There are many examples of animals bonding with each other you just don't hear about them if you're not enough of an animal lover to be interested!

As for humans being given stewardship over the earth I also think that's crap. Humans don't have the knowledge or ability - and in the past this knowledge was even less than it is now - to make suitable decisions for the world as a whole.

We as all animals have the instinct of self preservation on an individaul and species level.

There are hospitals for animals - they are called veterinary clinics! We're just more worried about ourselves so we are willing to pay more money to train doctors to specialize in our own treatment.

Animals are not human but you don't have to think of them as being subhuman to admit that there is a food chain.

We're not at the top - there is no top really. We have parasites. We just eat what we do as do all other animals.

If you really want to get into it there are people living in the third world who don't have any better existance than some animals.

In the wild the instict for self preservation is stronger because the race for life is a harder one. That doesn't for a second mean that they are inferior.

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Pfft! The cat and the dog at my mum's house are best mates. They play together all the time.

The same can be said for the cat and dog at my bro's place. The kitten was wild and actually adopted them because it followed the dog home from a walk in the park over a km. Not my brother but the dog.

When the dog escapes from the yard the cat and the dog go adventuring together!

In the vid you posted Koko loves her kittens!

I heard about a story just recently where a dolphin helped guide 3 whales at risk of being beached out to deeper waters!

There are many examples of animals bonding with each other you just don't hear about them if you're not enough of an animal lover to be interested!

As for humans being given stewardship over the earth I also think that's crap. Humans don't have the knowledge or ability - and in the past this knowledge was even less than it is now - to make suitable decisions for the world as a whole.

We as all animals have the instinct of self preservation on an individaul and species level.

There are hospitals for animals - they are called veterinary clinics! We're just more worried about ourselves so we are willing to pay more money to train doctors to specialize in our own treatment.

Animals are not human but you don't have to think of them as being subhuman to admit that there is a food chain.

We're not at the top - there is no top really. We have parasites. We just eat what we do as do all other animals.

If you really want to get into it there are people living in the third world who don't have any better existance than some animals.

In the wild the instict for self preservation is stronger because the race for life is a harder one. That doesn't for a second mean that they are inferior.

There are a number of documented cases of dolphins helping humans. Which is quite something considering that there is no bonding, like that between human and dog. I read somewhere that the dolphin is one of the evolutionary stages of man, for whatever that is worth. It makes my wonder how a dolphin views man, as just another animal or as something more, which by the way man is.

Here is a case where dolphins rescued a surfer after he was attacked by a great white.

Dolphins rescue surfer from shark - People: Tales of survival - Today.msnbc.com