It is clear that we share a great many basic emotions with animals, at least with other mammals, not merely individuaistic emotions, like anger, fear, anxiety, enjoyment or sense of well-being, but also many social emotions, such as trust and mistrust, friendliness and hate, as well as group feelings especially around hierarchy, and the kind of emotional adjustments one makes in accepting one's own position and associated possibilities of alliances, as well as its changes, the real or potential promotions or demotions in the dominance hierarchy or the pecking order. This makes it interesting to consider the emotions which when ascribed to even intelligent animals seem doubtful. For these emotions it would seem that they point either to self-awareness or to the knowledge of death, which in this context could be thought of as emotional modulators, since it is probably a question of a different combination of the same raw materials of feeling. Guilt, pride, euphoria or intense groundless happiness, are some examples that come to mind. Pride is a curious one, as some animals are superficially seen as proud and are even taken as symbols of pride, such as the peacock and the lion. These symbols may be quite appropriate, but this does not imply a pathetic fallacy or transference of the said emotion onto the animal. It seems to me that what is at stake here is at most emotions connected to hierarchy, but not pride since there is no corresponding despondency when their elevated position in their own group is overturned. They are modes of behaviour which suggest the emotion without being it, just as cats can enact arrogance too perfectly to actually be arrogant. Again, is it the awareness of death that when added to a purely hierarchic emotion, a sort of pre-pride, turns it into pride? Or is it a more developed sense of self and other, an additional reflexivity, as for example, the feeling of an elevated position in one's group, together with a sense of the group's elevated position relative to other groups?