Tortoise Emotions and Community
The gestures and expressions of elephants, lions, squirrels and other mammals are so similar to our own that it is easy to feel automatic empathy and kinship.
On the other hand, the cold scales and sinuous movement of a snake may not seem so "warm and fuzzy". But reptiles do have emotions and social lives and form deep relationships--even with mammals.
The brain structures and mechanisms that permit us to feel pleasure, love, and emotions are sjared by reptiles. Our "Cold Scales, Warm Heart" Project explores tortoise emotional life and experience and reminds us that we are kin under under fur, feather, fin, and scales and shells.
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