While the goal of understanding animals from the inside out may be considered naive, it certainly is not anthropocentric. Ideally, we understand animals based on what we know about their "Umwelt" -- a German term introduced in 1909 by Jacob von Uexkill for the environment as perceived by the animal. In the same way that parents learn to see through their children's eyes, the emphatic observer learns what is important to his or her animals, what frightens them, under which circumstances they feel as east, and so on. ~ Page 75