I found a raccoon! Last Monday my dog and I went on a walk to a waterfall so that I could take some photographs. Afterward I decided to continue along the old dirt road into less traversed land up in the mountains. By chance I looked up and discovered this raccoon lounging on a branch in the afternoon heat. It was barely perturbed by our presence but it did give us a look as if to say 'please don't make me move.' Maybe that's anthropomorphic but I think scientists need to stop being so pretentious because everything is how we interpret it. The only reason scientists are generally disinclined to interpret animal behavior the way they interpret human behavior is because it scares them to consider that the animals they do tests on may not be as different as themselves as they would hope. Being ignorant of contradictions to one's morality is the same as being amoral. I'd argue that in order to be as accurate as possible observations must be made in the manner most easily related. Anything else is censorship regardless of how unconsciously it is done.
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