PART THREE
WATCHING

When I asked Zahavi about experimentation, he told me, ‘Of course we do experiments with babblers. We ask them to come, and we tell them what we want them to do and the question we are dealing with. And they do it.’ I will never be sure Zahavi wasn’t serious.

Vinciane Despret, Ethology between

Empathy, Standpoint and Perspectivism:

the Case of the Arabian Babblers