Is There Moral Knowledge in Animals?

"There's this weird intermingling of occurrences in the story," he says. "The serpent tells eve that if she eats from the fruit of the tree, then her eyes'll be open and she'll be as god's knowing good and evil." He asks: Why is there an emphasis on moral knowledge? What does this have to do with moral knowledge?" The implication is that in the initial state of unconsciousness, there is no moral knowledge - just like animals don't know what they're doing....