The movie, Arctic Tale, shows the polar bears' life. It shows you all the way from the mother bear started to train her kids all the way up to her death and eventually her children's grown up life. Does it show that animals have feelings and emotions? I would say it does show that in our point of view. For us, we can say that the mother bear loves her children and she showed that by protecting them, feeding them, and teaching them about life. However, she might have done all that just because she didn't want her children to die so soon or else they wouldn't be able to pass out her gene. I would like to persuade myself that animals do have feelings and emotions, though. That way both makes me believe it is more important to protect and care about them and make me have more of the sense that we, the human beings, are not any higher than the other creature.
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This is interesting. Why do animals have to have emotions in order for you to feel that they should be protected? Shouldn't they be protected just because they have a right to exist? How about trees? They don't have emotions? Should they be protected? Your entry was OK.
In my opinion, the footage where Auntie scarified for Seela demonstrated a stronger point of view where mothers have the desire to save her young. Furthermore, in this case, Auntie is not even the mother of Seela!
I think you took a good approach by reserving your judgment and trying to see it from all points of view. It does seem like they have emotions from our point of view, but it might very well be cold hard nature. The one scene that I think challenges the notion that animals do not have emotions is the scene when Nanu (Female polar bear) apparently fell in love. I have never heard of something like that occurring with polar bears, and it certainly challenges the idea that polar bears do not have emotions.
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