Response to Megan's Miraculous Animals

In response to Megan's stories about particularly intelligent animals:
(http://darkworldjazz451.blogspot.com/2010/04/response-to-alex.html)
I have been thinking about this story with the horse and it is really fascinating to me. I think with respect to that specific story, I would need to have more information (to the point that I would argue that I would have needed to be there to fully appreciate the situation's intensity) so that I could appropriately argue the truth behind it.

But that is more trailing away from what I got excited about in the first place, for it is the mystical side of this specific story that is catching my attention so strongly. I think that I would like to believe that animals have certain senses that are just amazingly more talented than humans to the point that they can provide miracles as suggested in that story. But part of me can't shake the idea that even if they had the ability to tell these certain things, why would they be so interested in helping the human beings that are keeping them captive? It seems frighteningly selfless of a horse that has been locked up its entire life within a barn community to decide one day that it is going to help a little girl with her tumor situation. This makes me think that if they actually had the capacity for that much compassion, then they would indeed have a superego that is present; that they would help when they felt it was appropriate. The sheer lack of other examples of this compassion leads me to believe that it is unfortunately not present...

But then again: it did happen, and I can't deny that it was possibly purposeful. So I will leave the open minded idea that in outrageously rare occasions, animals may have brief bursts of superego that is present to give them the ability to help out.