Animals have personalities and minds and emotions.
Of course animals have a personality and emotions.
To me, trees are living beings and they have their own sort of personalities.
I have never had an animal that didn't have a personality, one differing from another.
Researchers find it very necessary to keep blinkers on. They don't want to admit that the animals they are working with have feelings. They don't want to admit that they might have minds and personalities because that would make it quite difficult for them to do what they do; so we find that within the lab communities there is a very strong resistance among the researchers to admitting that animals have minds, personalities and feelings.
When you meet chimps you meet individual personalities. When a baby chimp looks at you it's just like a human baby. We have a responsibility to them.
