Monkeys experience the visual world the same way people do

(Yale University) When humans look out at a visual landscape like a sunset or a beautiful overlook, we experience something -- we have a conscious awareness of what that scene looks like. This awareness of the visual world around us is central to our everyday existence, but are humans the only species that experiences the world consciously? Or do other non-human animals have the same sort of conscious experience we do?
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news