Hey, it's Guy here. So have you ever wondered where morality comes from?

Well, what if I told you its roots come from our shared ancestry with other primates?

On this episode, we explore what animals can teach us about our own behavior,

and how the way they experience empathy and altruism are actually not that far from how we experience them.

That's all on today's show. It's called Animals and Us, and it originally aired in May of 2015.

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I'm Guy Ross, and on today's show Animals and Us.

Ideas about the way we interact and how those interactions define us.

And one of the things that really started to change the way we think about animals

happened a little more than 100 years ago. It involved a US president, a bear,

cartoonist, and a group of savvy toy makers.

writer John Wellam told the story on the Ted stage.

So it was the fall of 1902, and President Theodore Roosevelt needed a little break from the White House.

So he took a train to Mississippi to do a little black bear hunting outside of a town called Smeets.

The first day of the hunt, they didn't see a single bear. So it was a big bummer for everyone.

But the second day, the dogs cornered one after a really long chase.

But by that point, the president had given up and gone back to camp for lunch.

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