Helpful animals and human altruism

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"...Humans like to pretend we are unique in truly caring for others. In the words of the Dutch primatologist, Frans de Waal: “People willfully suppress knowledge most have had since childhood, which is that animals do have feelings and do care about others. How and why half the world drops this conviction once they grow beards or breasts will always baffle me, but the result is the common fallacy that we are unique in this regard”. In reality, altruism and helping behaviors are far from rare in the animal kingdom...." [excerpt from Growing Young]