This field of study is able to provide arguments about the ethical treatments of animals through the realization that animal emotions exist. Ethics is able to focus on the well being of animals and shift from anthropocentrism. By realizing the relation between cognitive ethology, animal emotions and ethics, humans are no longer seen as superior over animals because they are regarded as similar to them. Cognitive ethology and animal emotions allow ethics to “ enrich our views of other animals” as well as “ change how we do science” (Bekoff, 2007,p. 22-23). When we understand that animals have emotions and require ethical measures, their lives become important and they are appreciated as members of society. This also changes the ways in which scientists conduct experiments on animals because they can now be regarded as having feelings similar to humans, in which these experiments are now seen as
This field of study is able to provide arguments about the ethical treatments of animals through the realization that animal emotions exist. Ethics is able to focus on the well being of animals and shift from anthropocentrism. By realizing the relation between cognitive ethology, animal emotions and ethics, humans are no longer seen as superior over animals because they are regarded as similar to them. Cognitive ethology and animal emotions allow ethics to “ enrich our views of other animals” as well as “ change how we do science” (Bekoff, 2007,p. 22-23). When we understand that animals have emotions and require ethical measures, their lives become important and they are appreciated as members of society. This also changes the ways in which scientists conduct experiments on animals because they can now be regarded as having feelings similar to humans, in which these experiments are now seen as