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Does a prairie dog mourn its dead? Is a prairie dog capable of empathy and every single emotion we human's experience? As I stated earlier, I grew up hunting, damn near everyone in my family hunts, but killing a creature that is nearly as smart as we are, that deeply mourns its dead, and that experiences every single emotion that we experience just aint right. Its wrong. Its not comparable to killing prairie dogs, or whitetail deer, or rabbits, or squirrel or any of the animals we hunt over here.
First... most animals have some time of feeling for others of their family or kind. Deer will hang around and try to get up dead calves.. and will stand over and defend them against predators. Prairie dogs will come over and nose up dead in their family group. So on and so forth. If you watch animals as long as I have as a hunter, you will see that animals have all sorts of behaviors that humans can call "emotion".. whether its emotion or not? that's humans putting their own twist on things. Cows will defend a dead calf.. and no leave the calfs sides. I have seen cows develop what appears to be friendships with other cows.. they will nurse their friends calves and watch over them while their friends eat.
Do you eat beef?