ABSTRACT
Ethics is for people, but is ethics only about people? Wild animals do not make man the measure of things at all. There is no better evidence of non-human values and valuers than spontaneous wild life, born free and on its own. Animals hunt and howl, fi nd shelter, seek out their habitats and mates, care for their young, and fl ee from threats. They suff er injury and lick their wounds. Animals maintain a self-identity that they value as they cope through the world. They defend their own lives because they have a good of their own. Their lives matter to them.
