So no universals here? I remember reading Marshall Sahlins' famous cross-cultural study about food. He found that food habits are extremely "relative" qua substance (what is eaten), but that there is a universal mechanism of gradation, based on perceived "distance" between the species (e.g...
Mmm, it's a matter of "distance" and relatedness. Humans have a deep sense of emotional and social connectedness to higher apes. We can read their faces better, so to speak. This is less the case with horses and donkeys.
Of course, this is a matter of gradation.
I take it you are referring to prof Van de Waal's recent study in Nature, which shows that monkeys will strike if you don't treat them in a fair way.
Monkeys clearly have a sense of "justice" and "solidarity" (you need to reward them in a reasonable way; they'll compare their reward with that...
Hello, I'm writing a bit of an absurd business plan, and I'm faced with ethical considerations. I'd like your advice.
The plan consists of using certain species of monkeys as laborers, on a massive scale. The monkeys will be bred, trained and employed to carry out specific tasks, which can't...