"If we truly believed in the #intelligence of the living world, how might we live differently? What would it mean to build, farm and move across the planet with #kinship, not conquest, as our organizing principle? What would a different world – one that works with #nature, and not against it – look like?" Fascinating #longread - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/nov/16/human-exceptionalism-essay

#solarpunkSunday #NatureMatchCuts #empathy #exceptionalism #moreThanHuman #Animism #wildlife #visions #personhood #rightsOfNature #indigenous

"If we truly believed in the #intelligence of the living world, how might we live differently? What would it mean to build, farm and move across the planet with #kinship, not conquest, as our organizing principle? What would a different world – one that works with #nature, and not against it – look like?" Fascinating #longread - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/nov/16/human-exceptionalism-essay

#solarpunkSunday #NatureMatchCuts #empathy #exceptionalism #moreThanHuman #Animism #wildlife #visions #personhood #rightsOfNature #indigenous

I'm always mildly surprised when scientists are suddenly suprised that animals other than humans and great apes could be intelligent. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jan/19/back-scratching-cow-veronika-bovine-intelligence

The scientific article in @CurrentBiology https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)01597-0

I recommend Frans de Waals book "Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?" His lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O4kpSGRm7E

#anthropocentrism #moreThanHuman #animalBehaviour #intelligence #NatureMatchCuts #animals #cow #cattle

I'm always mildly surprised when scientists are suddenly suprised that animals other than humans and great apes could be intelligent. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jan/19/back-scratching-cow-veronika-bovine-intelligence

The scientific article in @CurrentBiology https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)01597-0

I recommend Frans de Waals book "Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?" His lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O4kpSGRm7E

#anthropocentrism #moreThanHuman #animalBehaviour #intelligence #NatureMatchCuts #animals #cow #cattle