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One of the more fascinating (and heartwarming) offerings on public TV is the depiction of friendship between different species of the animal kingdom.
You may have well viewed such.
Here is one link:
Some of these seem rather improbable, and not something we humans might imagine.
Nonetheless, they have been well documented.
Those who have witnessed such pairings are usually restrained in their assessment, stating they don’t pretend to know what goes on inside the participants.
This seems appropriate, in that, having limited ability to communicate with our fellow animals (Dr. Doolittle was fictional — wasn’t he? And precious few of us have the gift of dog whispering, or horse whispering), we don’t really know what they are feeling when they interact in a particular way with a member of another species.
But emotion, as we know it, seems to be experienced by many such animals. Devotion, contentment, joy. Possibly even empathy and compassion.
