The Stage is Yours.

[Mystic]

Then how can you rule out that an animal's actions, even if based on instinct, are moral?

Because morality takes a higher conscious, it takes a belief in doing the right thing or more better/honourable thing...this can be done in a instance...or we can react instinctively with that belief that we should do something.

...animals on the other hand cannot relate to this objective morals, they don't have a belief in it, they simply act on instincts.