Guardian
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The mental territory we can claim to be uniquely human’ is shrinking at an alarming rate.
Wasps can distinguish faces, dolphins call one another by name, pigs use tools and pigs.
Chimps, meanwhile, exist in complex cultures, rather like ours, with fashion trends.
We end up empathising only with the animals we know well, such as our pets.
At the height on anthropodenialism, in the 19th century , experiments on dogs triggered huge protests by anti-cruelty leagues, but the fate of other animals attracted little interest.
We have a surfeit of laws against pet cruelty, but continue to treat farm animals badly.
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