Gorillas have achieved personhood (from the late Jane Goodall’s anthropological perspective, at the very least) so we must now move the goal-post just a little bit more and get our human heads around the magnanimity of a river. The river has life and; in the bountifulness that it is; it nourishes life along its banks. It carries life and it is life.
Trees reach, with their roots systems and communicate underground.
Science tells us that raccoons solve puzzle for amusement and enjoyment.
https://science.ubc.ca/news/2026-03/raccoons-solve-puzzles-fun-it-new-study-finds
Chimpanzees have been seen to mock their siblings, make fun, and annoy their parents with bratty-like behaviours not unlike human teenagers. They also mean business make they get mad or upset, setting them above lions in terms of animal-kingdom hierarchy in behavioural dominance.
We are learning that there is more to know about the complexities of the animal mind and nature’s presence. There is simply more to it, humans are not the only ones to possess agency.
A woman describes “a portal to another dimension” in the life of squirrels.
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