from Andrew Gach -
UncleWolf@worldnet.att.net
Everyone has heard stories of how a dog or cat comforted
its sad or frightened owner. But what about a Labrador retriever that
barked for an hour in the snow to summon help for a stranger who had
fallen into a river? Or the cat in Hawaii who led a woman to some
puppies that had fallen into a 12-foot-deep crack in the earth?
Or Beauty, a horse that -- while swimming in a rushing
river to try to save her colt -- nudged a stranger toward the safety of
the shore before rescuing her foal? (The man had jumped in to try,
unsuccessfully, to help the horses.) Stories like these seem to show
that animals are capable of being virtuous, says Kristin von Kreisler.
She has compiled hundreds of similar stories and put
them in a book ("Beauty in the Beasts: True Stories of Animals Who
Choose to Do Good," published by Tarcher/Putnam). Von Kreisler says the
stories prove that animals aren't always motivated by instinct or
self-preservation. This is a controversial view among scientists.
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http://nandotimes.com/healthscience/v-text/story/17407p-313709c.html
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