Future benefits rarely figure in the minds of animals.

Octopuses have hundreds of suckers, each one equipped with its own ganglion with thousands of neurons. These 'mini-brains' are interconnected, making for a widely distributed nervous system. That is why a severed octopus arm may crawl on its own and even pick up food.

If you look at national economies today, for example, the American economy, the European economy, the Indians, the Chinese, we're all tied together. If one of them sinks, the rest are going to sink with them and if one floats, the rest are lifted up. I find that very interesting.

Although elephants are far more distantly related to us than the great apes, they seem to have evolved similar social and cognitive capacities.

You need to indoctrinate empathy out of people in order to arrive at extreme capitalist positions.

Most exotic animals are not particularly interested in people, which makes it hard to provoke them. Human-rearing gets them used to and sometimes imprinted on humans, which makes them potentially dangerous.

Robin Hood had it right.Humanity's deepest wish is to spread the wealth.