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- The whale story almost had me in tears, the beauty of it is just amazing.
While she may not have been saying "thank you" perhaps she was looking curiously at the creatures who had rescued her.
I agree with some of the other comments, why do we need to think that animals don't think the same way we do? Why do we have to assume that their thought processes are different when on the whole the structure of their brain is very similar to our own? As with liver and kidneys and other internal organs that do the same job in other lifeforms why would we think their brains act in such a different way?
And on the animals feeling guilt when they have done something bad... of course any animal being roused on will become submissive. But the question of guilt is on discovery of the act for which they should be guilty.
Our cat slinks away from us and avoids us when he has done something he knows he shouldn't have. And the dog, while he doesn't avoid us acts very differently when we come home to find he has ripped things apart. His emotion evident BEFORE he is yelled at or 'punished'.
I always worry about the arrogance of humans.
