Emotions and intelligence in the animal kingdom
We, Homo sapiens, belong to the animal kingdom, but we always had the presumption to hold us in higher absolute. Scientific knowledge and better observation has instead revealed many qualities in common with the animals: intelligence to emotions. The spread of the pet and its positive relational experience is receiving confirmations from what emerges from ethological studies. They are similar to us as much as we are like them.
Meeting with prof. Roberto Marchesini
Roberto Marchesini, philosopher, ethologist and zoo-antropologist teaches in several universities. In 1997 he founded SIUA (School of Human-Animal), of which he is still the director, through which it promotes throughout Italy higher education courses on relationship with pets, the pet therapy and in the field of child-animal relationship. It’s the author of over a hundred publications including: Italian-Dog Dictionary (Probe, 2010), Against animal rights? (2014), Fundamentals of zoo-antropology (2014), Animal Epiphany. The overman as revelation (2014) and Ethology philosophical. In search of animal subjectivity (2016).