Where do atheists get their morality from?

[Cyberman]

Chimps and elephants mourn, but that is nothing similar to worshiping....animals have displayed similar behavioral characteristics for hundreds of millions of years as evidenced in the fossil record (yes, many specimen have been found in still-life conditions)....they were not worshiping,...

So, animals are smarter than most people. I get that.

An amusing little aside which I'm not sure if I've said before but I'll carry on regardless. Many years ago, my then-very-young nephew Chris had a pet hamster (one of several over the years, hamsters notoriously tending to wear out rather quickly). Obviously, since he was Chris' pet, it fell to me to look after him; cleaning him out, providing food/water and all the tasks that fall under the remit of rodent housekeeping.

He - the hamster, not the nephew - lived in quite a large modular housing complex interconnected by a network of tubing which served as tunnels. One of the longer of these sloped upwards at an easy angle between two modules and had a short T-junction about halfway, the protruding arm of the T terminating at a water bottle nozzle.

Anyway, I would frequently find dry food packed into this side tunnel and around the water nozzle. Doubtless this was one of his food caches that hamsters are wont to establish, presumably in this case in order to have a convenient one-stop-shop for food and drink. However, it did cross my mind that maybe, just maybe, he was making sacrificial offerings to the Water God (i.e. me) in exchange for fresh water, a prayer which was always answered. I might add that this was only one of two water bottles in the complex and I never saw a similar arrangement with the other one.

Quite what it says for his intelligence, I haven't the remotest idea.