Outside of apes and monkeys, dophins and elephants, as well as corvids also appear in anecdotal reports and the scientific literature to have many complex forms of empathy.
Might be related to Erich Neumann’s book The Great mother which cites: “The psychological development [of humankind]… begins with the ‘matriarchal’ stage in which the archetype of the Great Mother dominates and the unconscious directs the psychic process of the individual and the group.” It’s like when we see animals in the wild eg. the lioness and its cub, we always associate it as the mother and its child—we do not have to google or open a book to like ensure that it is the case but deep within our psyche is that pattern that allows us to interpret it as such.
Might be related to Erich Neumann’s book The Great mother which cites: “The psychological development [of humankind]… begins with the ‘matriarchal’ stage in which the archetype of the Great Mother dominates and the unconscious directs the psychic process of the individual and the group.” It’s like when we see animals in the wild eg. the lioness and its cub, we always associate it as the mother and its child—we do not have to google or open a book to like ensure that it is the case but deep within our psyche is that pattern that allows us to interpret it as such.