Animism
Out to prove that animals have language - when you live around and with animals a lot of scientific studies about animal behaviour and communication seem to be little more than common sense, but for the scientific community it's quite a step. I think their study about bird grammar received some criticism, so there's still some way to go. But hey not too long ago people were debating whether women have a soul, so there we go, slow but steady.
Where do you all think the ability to experience comes from? Are there any organisms you think don’t experience - plants, bacteria? What about rocks, galaxies, or computers?
Animism is the belief (don't really like this word, but for now) that we live in relation with non-human persons. Animals, plants and fungi have personhood, landscapes and places have personhood, waterbodies have personhood, ... even machines might have, who knows. These relationships need to be managed just like relations with the people around us. But it seems that we humans have spent the last 10s of 1000s of years in a toddler tantrum of perceived uniqueness and haven't listened to our older relatives. (Okay, the last bit is my personal take of this, rather to serve as a discussion point).