#whales (apparently) can adopt orphaned young of other species!

[curiosity-killed]

this is not meant as a philosophical thing but it always catches me by surprise and feels a little funny when ppl make statements about What Makes Us Human/What Separates Us From Animals because like 99% of what humans do, at least some other animals also do or can do, and also like, why do u want to be separate so bad? do u not take comfort in knowing that ravens and elephants mourn their loved ones, too? that dogs and monkeys can learn to paint? that cats will seek you out for comfort when they’re scared? do u really want to live in a world where we’re alone at the ~top of the pyramid~? seems lonely. seems like shit

#whales (apparently) can adopt orphaned young of other species! #cats and dogs will protect kids/babies!! #other animals are sad and upset when separated from their friends!! #like! #idk!! i just don't get it #maybe this is the child!curio who thought animals were better than people coming out #but like #isn't it a comfort to know that the world is full of so many familiar echoes? #that we walk the same paths shared by animals from wildly divergent lines of evolution? #that like plants we too turn toward the sun???? #personal #the world is not a pyramid it is a spiral of networks and we are one vibration among a whole goddamn symphony