Let us love them; earth was not created for human life alone

I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being. They deserved to be loved. When you think about love, if you are like most people, you are just thinking about romantic love between two humans. Time to crack that definition wide open to include all living beings and love that crosses species barriers. If we could clearly see how much other species love life and love others, it might change how we view them. The accounts of other species loving and risking their lives for those they love for their own and other species are countless.

A hunter once told a story of the last day he hunted gibbons. A gibbon (monkey) was up in a tree and he shot her several times. She would not die or drop down out of the tree until he had four bullets in her. When she dropped, he saw she was holding her baby. The hunter was shocked when the mother gibbon was crying “like a human” while clutching her baby with her blood soaked arms. Moments before she died, she held her baby out to the man until he took the baby into his arms. He never hunted again. This kind of love of a mother for her child is far from being just a human emotion.

Let us love them; earth was created for all life, not just human life.