tracking them saying jericho is at least still alive and well based on gps data. still, the outpouring of emotion illustrates how attuned we are to the suffering and abuse of certain animals. so why visceral emotional connections to lions like cecil but not other animals? this became quite a thing yesterday as we talked about how we feel about narnia how we feel about the lion king and how babe the pig can give us these feelings but, man, we will eat a chicken all day and step on an ant. i just wonder about this sort of influence we have over certain animals. >> if you go to a theme park there are some pandas and lions and so forth that have their own personality, if you will and it's commercialized so therefore we have an emotional connection to him or her.