Animals Intelligence and Sensitivity

I seem to be receiving a lot of emails and links recently from friends about the sensitivity and intelligence of animals.  One which particularly caught me was of a monkey rescuing a puppy from high flood water ..as shown here...sorry for the quality of photo but isn't it amazing ?  Another was of a video showing one dog risking its own life to pull another dog off a busy motorway and onto the verge after an accident. It makes me ponder to what degree we under-value the sensitivity and intelligence of the non human lives of the planet. Not that this is a new idea..about 2500 years ago, Pythagoras said "Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul"
It feels like a really important part of building a  more humane society, to develop a greater value for the fauna life and to appreciate their lives for what they are in themselves, and not just for what they do for us.