Have you ever wondered what animals think and feel? There are capacities of the human mind that we tend to think are capacities only of the human mind. But is that true?
你是否疑惑過，動物們在想些什么，它們能感覺到什么？我們認為這些能力是人腦獨有的。但真是這樣嗎？
The first thing to remember is that a neuron, a nerve cell, looks the same in a crayfish, a bird or you. If you give a crayfish a lot of little tiny electric shocks every time it tries to come out of its burrow, it will develop anxiety. If you give the crayfish the same drug used to treat anxiety disorder in humans, it relaxes and comes out and explores. How do we show how much we care about crayfish anxiety? Mostly, we boil them. Octopuses use tools, as well as do most apes and they recognize human faces. How do we celebrate the ape-like intelligence of this invertebrate? Mostly boiled.
我們要記住的第一件事是：（人類的大腦是繼承來的。）可是不管是鳥類，小龍蝦，還是你，你們都有著一樣的神經元和神經細胞。事實證明，如果一只小龍蝦每當它想從地洞里爬出來的時候你就給它一個小的電擊，可以導致它產生焦慮癥。而如果你給這只小龍蝦吃藥，吃給人類焦慮癥患者一樣的藥，小龍蝦也會放松起來，然后繼續出地洞探索。而我們是怎么判斷的小龍蝦是否焦慮呢？大多數情況下，我們把它們煮了吃。
Sea otters use tools and they take time away from what they're doing to show their babies what to do, which is called teaching. We have the same imperatives: take care of our babies, find food, try to stay alive. We are basically the same. We are kin under the skin.
海獺會使用工具，它們花時間給寶寶展示它們正在做什么好讓寶寶也可以跟著它們做，這就是教學。我們跟它們都有同樣的需求：照顧孩子，尋找食物，盡力活下去。我們本質上是一樣的。皮囊之下我們都是相同的。

This is an elephant named Philo. He was a young male. This is him four days later. Humans not only can feel grief, we create an awful lot of it. We want to carve their teeth. Why can't we wait for them to die?
這是一頭叫Philo的大象。他是頭年輕的公象。這是四天后的他。人類不僅能感到悲痛，我們還常常制造很多的痛苦。我們總想拔掉它們的牙。難道我們就真的等不到它們死去后再說嗎？
We cause so much pain to them. The mystery is, why don't they hurt us more than they do? Why don't they eat us? Why is it that killer whales have returned to researchers lost in thick fog and led them miles until the fog parted? How could dolphins know that one of the human hearts had just stopped? Why would they care? And why would it spook them? These mysterious things just hint at all of the things that are going on in the minds that are with us on Earth that we almost never think about at all.
我們對它們造成太多的傷害了。可問題是，為什么它們不會那樣傷害我們呢？可為什么它們不吃我們呢？為什么虎鯨在大霧天會到海上研究員那里指引他們一直到數英里以外濃霧散去到達那些研究員的家所在的海岸邊？海豚是怎么知道那其中的一個人心臟停止了跳動呢？為什么它們會關心這個呢？為什么這把它們嚇住了呢？這些奇妙的事情就是在這個地球上和我們一起生存的生物的大腦中時時刻刻在發生著的，而我們對這些卻根本毫不關心。
At an aquarium in South Africa was a little baby bottle-nosed dolphin named Dolly. And one day a keeper took a cigarette break, smoking. Dolly came over and looked at him, and released a cloud of milk that enveloped her head like smoke. When human beings use one thing to represent another, we call that art.
在南非的一個水族館里，有一只叫Dolly的小寬吻海豚。有一天，一個飼養員在抽煙休息。 他一邊抽著煙，Dolly過去看了一下他，吐出了一口奶，那些“奶煙”籠罩在它的頭上，就像人們抽煙一樣。當人類用一個事物去代表另一樣事物，我們便稱之為藝術。
The things that make us human are not the things that we think make us human. What makes us human is that, of all these things that our minds and their minds have, we are the most extreme. We are the most compassionate, most violent, most creative and most destructive animal that has ever been on this planet, and we are all of those things all jumbled up together. But love is not the thing that makes us human. It's not special to us. Passing life from one generation to the next is the chain of being. If that stops, it all goes away.
真正使我們成為人類的東西其實并不是那些我們認為的使我們成為人類的東西。真正讓我們成為人類的東西其實是那些我們和動物們都有的心智活動，但我們卻是最極端的。在這個星球上我們是最有同情心也最暴力最有創造力也最具破壞性的動物，我們是所有這些特征的結合體。并不是愛讓人得以為人。愛不是我們特有的。生命一代一代向下相傳，鑄成了生命的聯結。如果這停止了，一切就消失了。
When we welcome new human life into the world, we welcome our babies into the company of other creatures. We paint animals on the walls. We don't paint cell phones. We don't paint work cubicles. We paint animals to show them that we are not alone. We have company. And every one of those animals in every painting of Noah's ark, deemed worthy of salvation is in mortal danger now, and their flood is us. We're going to ask another question. Are we capable of using what we have to care enough to simply let them continue?
當我們歡迎來到這個世界上的新生命時，我們常常讓我們的寶寶與其他的生物作伴。我們把動物的圖案涂繪在墻上。我們不會畫手機。我們不會畫工作間。我們畫動物給寶寶們看，讓他們知道我們并不孤單。我們還有它們陪伴。在每一幅諾亞方舟畫上的每一種動物，那些應該被拯救的動物現在都處于滅絕的危險中。而我們就是他們的滅頂之災。而現在我們要問另外一個問題。我們有沒有竭盡所能地去在乎他們的未來？