Love,

As humans we think we are the epitome of love and compasion, when someone behaves cruel, we call him ( always a him :-D ) a  beast, an animal. I have a few pets and I love animals, when ever I hear this, it pricks me. Ive seen animals show so much compasion and love. Animals are far more human than people at times.

My cats are so affectionate to each other, always grooming, waiting for each other. sharing food. They are even nice to my dog! They all say good mornin to each other, touchin their noses every morning. when I took my cats to my mum's place they were annoyed and hiding from me, but they did comeout to greet my coco!!!!! smell his nose and butt and all!!! anyway...

Its really touching, the affectionate loving bonds between animals, There is this black dog near my house, it had pups and it was in a bad shape with lot of bugs on it. It's  friend - Old man, really old dog who roams around all over the layout. I am sure this guy is not romantically interested in this doggy. He use to come over in the evening and lovingly removes the bugs from her eyes with his teeth. He plays with her pups as well. Sweet this is. Really nice friendship. 

Love affection and friendship human - perogative? not at all. If I think about the it, the most original love,  must have been between mother and child - in mammals and birds. love between friends and family ( not sure about family, there is lot of love(???) between sisters in bees and ants... ) love between partners all came much much later... but still much before humans, much before primates even.. Love between partners evolved  may be in the time of birds ..?

I think scientist and people in general really underestimate the emotive capacity of animals and birds, a few labarotray test will prove only their logical ability - which I think is the pergative of humans.  We need to measure love with love, connect to the animals emotionally and then we know how much we can comminicate with them. We also arrogantly and falsly think of ourselves - people as epitome of higher emotions. To be human is to me to be more logical , to be able to do math better, That is what evolved specifically to us( so scientific backin to this, its all what i feel, let us see if it fits in). Love kindness alturism are all ancient emotions which may be as evident in other mammals as us.

If you think about it. Love just like lungs for breathing on land is an evolutionary adaptation which has helped species survive. so why such a big deal about it? I think the big deal is because we are evolved to make a big deal about it ;-)