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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

In June 2006, Jane and I visited a chimpanzee sanctuary near Girona, Spain. Harvard University psychologist Marc Hauser observed what could be called embarrassment in a male rhesus monkey. After sensing that no other monkeys saw him tumble, he marched off, back high, head and tail up, as if nothing had happened.

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