Australian birds have weaponized fire be... make us afraidScientific article:
Intentional Fire-Spreading by “Firehawk†Raptors in Northern AustraliaADDENDUMIf you're interested in animal consciousness and sentience, you might want to check out
What is it like to be a bat?, a paper by American philosopher
Thomas Nagel, first published in
The Philosophical Review in October 1974, and later in Nagel's Mortal Questions (1979).
And anything by Donald R. Griffin, father of cognitive ethology.
Here's a little list of worthwhile reading:
Halberstadt A. Zoo Animals and Their Discontents. The New York Times Magazine, July 6, 2014. Available from:
http://www.nytimes.com/ 2014/07/06/magazine/zoo-animals-and-their-discontents.html Last accessed December 10, 2014.
Grandin T, Johnson C. Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals. Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
Griffin DR. The Question of Animal Awareness: Evolutionary Continuity of Mental Experience. New York: Rockefeller University Press, 1976.
Griffin DR. Animal Thinking. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1984.
Griffin DR. Animal Minds: Beyond Cognition to Consciousness. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.
