Do animals think like us ?

Do animals think like us ?

I am not particularly fond of taking close-up images of tigers. I prefer images in their environment as our eyes see them. However, I took this picture because the tigress was in such a pensive mood. For some time she did not notice us, lost in her own “thoughts”.
That brings us to the question – does animals think like us ? About past or future ? Do they experience emotions, ponder their surroundings, and engage in complex cognitive processes?
For most of the 20th century, animal researchers wouldn’t even have asked such a question, much less attempted to answer it.
Scientific orthodoxy believed that it was neither legitimate nor necessary to talk about what was going on in an animal’s mind. They argued, that science only deals with things that can be observed and measured, and we can’t directly observe mental faculties even in ourselves, much less In animals.
When Jane Goodall first went to study chimpanzees in Tanzania in the 1960s, her practice of giving names to the individual chimps she observed –was frowned on as unscientific, since it suggested that they might be humanlike in other ways.
“You cannot share your life with a dog or a cat,” Goodall later observed, “and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings. You know it and I think every single one of those scientists knew it, too, but because they couldn’t prove it, they didn’t talk about it.”
When Goodall discovered that chimpanzees create their own tools, this assumption was also questioned. Goodall's mentor Louis Leakey responded to her observation with a famous telegram: "We must now redefine man, redefine tool, or accept chimpanzees as human!"
Today, most scientists agree that animals have complex mental capacities once thought to be unique to humans, such as the ability to give objects names, use tools and show empathy and new discoveries about the brain are breaking down barriers between us and other non-human animals.
So………..Do animals think?
“Of course they do,” answers Marc Hauser, a Harvard professor of psychology. “How could they not think and manage to survive in the world?”