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#1. had also hoped to visit scientists investigating cats' mental talents, but unfortunately very few researchers have looked into the feline mind.

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#2. Elephants also have the necessary neural anatomy for long-term memories - their brains have especially large and complex frontal lobes, which are important for storing and retrieving memories of scent, touch, smell, and sound. There's little doubt that elephants have prodigious memories.

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#3. (Although Darwin did not have genetics at hand to prove his case, we now know that humans and chimpanzees share 98 percent of their genes; humans and fruit flies share 44 percent of their genes.)

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#4. animals with more mental flexibility typically possess more complex sensory and nervous systems, suggesting that they are the most likely to have the neural hardware that underlies suffering.

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#5. Scientists at the University of Georgia recently discovered that rats are self-aware and capable of something like introspection - complex

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