Also where my mind went, plus extensive thoughts about consent-based animal/human handling, plus the entire PhD's worth of animal communication as mediated by different sensory biology and interactions with the world. (Hi--kaberett linked me.)

Sort of want to introduce the author to Nagel's wretched bat essay and see whether any sparks fly. Or maybe, if I was feeling especially mean, to release the extremely treacherous and eugenicist history of the study of intelligence and its many critiques into their sphere of knowledge and see how that interacts with the scrupulosity. Yeesh.