Carl Safina - What animals are thinking and feeling, and why it should matter

We are the most loving and the most violent creatures in nature; the most artistic and the most destructive; the most altruistic and the most greedy; we have the most extremes.

Do animals think and feel, do they love and have friends, do they feel sad, lonely and get depressed, do they have empathy?

Why do so few animals attack us and yet we attack them?

Humans believe they have free will, but I think animals believe they do too. Well, they don't believe because they don't have our type of consciousness, but they feel that they do. They evaluate and make decisions in their way, perhaps through feelings and the way their minds consciously perceive the world. They have a free spirit, like us.

I'm a vegan, by the way. I'm very biased anti war.

Carl Safina takes us inside the lives and minds of animals around the world, witnessing their profound capacity for perception, thought and emotion, showing why the word "it" is often inappropriate as we discover "who" they really are. And yet, we are wiping out the very animals we should celebrate; we are the flood coming for Noah's Ark. Carl leaves us with a difficult question: Do we have what it takes to let life on earth survive?