Values morals and ethics have an origin in our early civilization. Animals themselves have systems of existence for example a pack of wolves, they travel together, mate for life and protect their own. They have alphas to lead to to defend. There is a bit of values and morality to their system of survival that also includes instinct. People are and used to be the same perhaps in a more complicated manner. Being a very young child I knew what the difference between right and wrong were, life is unbiased and innocent then, we strive to be good and tolerant, we want to thrive and live and survive.
Ethics is a blueprint for how we should behave, give definition to what is right and wrong, and to create of system of justice based on our moral identities. We are social creatures as is the wolf.
There is a much deeper understanding in every being on this planet of such integral values, otherwise we would have burned this planet to the ground or not survived at all.