Specific Rights in Nonhuman Animal Rights Declarations (Part 7)

Education is not an exclusively human phenomenon, as most nonhuman animals also need a certain amount of education to thrive. Human and nonhuman animal children, by their very nature, receive this oftentimes automatically from their parents and/or other members of their social group. In a multispecies society, we need diverse kinds of education and learning. We can speak of intraspecies learning (humans learn from humans, dogs learn from dogs, etc.) and interspecies learning (humans learn from dogs, and dogs learn from geese, for example). When we as humans open our minds in the multispecies community, we can learn from nonhuman beings and become “other-wise” (O’Doherty 2016, 421).