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If you ever study animal behavior or ethology, you’re taught not to read human emotion into animal reactions and behavior.

But why?

The answer is that these are animals and we’re looking for reasons for actions rather than saying an animal hid because it was embarrassed. Animals arn’t humans! they don’t even come CLOSE! Right…?

Perhaps it isn’t as inaccurate as all that to believe that some animals are as complex in emotion as humans.

Squirrels have a nasty habit of getting themselves hit by cars. This is very apparent to bicyclists or walkers. Why is it the squirrels? Of all the road kill species found on the…