PC03 Empathy as an Instinct
Marine iguanas like to sun themselves together, tells Michael Slote passionately. Slote is Professor at the University of Miami where marine iguanas are, according to him, all around the campus! Cute animals like the red footed tortoise or crocodiles and their empathic behavior are as much part of the talk as empathy in human animals. Concerning the last, Slote floats (among others) the idea that emotional empathy is more active than it has thought to be.