Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Animals right from wrong

Pets show often a guilty expression when they did something stupid in the house and are certain of their master. Try to avoid them or go looking tail between your legs when you are certain that they did dirty or torn papers destroyed things and left the office. Just know they have done something really bad, or is it fear, that master yells at them?
Adelie penguins
behavior of Adelie penguins
In a BBC documentary, Frozen Planet (Planeta ice cream), penguins are Adelie movie you gather stones to build their nest. One of them, stealing many a stone neighbor's nest every time it starts to gather. Does penguin-hot knows that his actions "discrete" is incorrect?
These are episodes that have sparked interest ethology, researchers specializing in the study of animal behavior , because for years they have ruled out completely the possibility that animals have any moral sense, the chance for them to know the difference between right and wrong. Finally, things are starting to move in the opposite direction.
"People like to make a clear distinction between themselves and the animal in this regard"
Comment situation ethologist Marc Berkoff, professor emeritus of the University of Colorado.
"But now there is no doubt that the scientific evidence on the moral sense of the animals accumulate every day, as are efforts to study this issue,"
he says. Berkoff's specialty is ethology and evolutionary biology and co-founder (along with his colleague, Jane Goodall) the association Ethologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals . His intensive research led him to the belief that morality is an evolutionary feature, not a set of people and that has evolved since the first mammals.
"It was observed in some species, that fact was not widely studied, but I think that moral sentiments are widespread among animals "
Berkoff said. Much of the area of study involved the behavior of wolves and coyotes, both species living in groups governed by strict rules. Berkoff observed in both cases the existence of acts of altruism, tolerance and forgiveness, reciprocity and fairness. He says that moral sentiments are evident in their way ofbehavior to each other. dogs dingo they learn the code of social behavior from an early age. They ask each other the hole using a "body language which includes" bow "let down the front paws, remaining with the rear raised. Though after that will growling," bow "is clearly evident.
During exercise such behavior kindly, leaves group leaders often the weak to play the winners, putting it back in the humble posture. If during their game group member is bitten by mistake, the culprit will again bow, to show that he played, it was not an attack. For misconduct, such as stealing food from each other, "thieves" are isolated in groups and must leave.
Berkoff notice that this kind of repudiation laws resemble the Wild West, when characters were unbearable for the inhabitants of a locality driven from city classic warning:
"Get on the first due diligence and get out of here by sundown."
It is an expression of the first animal moral rules applied in human society from its beginning. Experiments conducted at the University of Vienna led to the conclusion that human friends, dogs are bothered if they are mistreated by humans. Dogs included in the tests were glad to give paw in greeting, without caring whether they are rewarded or not, the same dogs were clearly annoyed when I saw that the other dogs are rewarded the same gesture. They knew that they had been mistreated. Berkoff and other researchers argue that the moral sense is present in most species, even in rats that abstaining from eating if they know it will cause pain in other rats.
source..roportal.ro

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