Scientists ‘Discover’ Emotions In Animals

Researchers working in neurobiology and behavioral observation seem to be learning what pet lovers have known all along: animals have feelings.
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Christina What annoys me about this article, and the comments that follow it, is that that people act like the scientific community is stupid for "denying" that animals have feelings.

I'm sure most of these behavioral scientists have pets of their own, and did believe that animals have emotion already. That's probably why they're studying it, in fact! But just because you think something about an animal doesn't mean you can say it's true. People anthropromorphize all sorts of things about animals...but you still need scientific data to back assertions up.
1/14/2009
Rachel I'm doing a school speech on animal rights. This article helped with having a resource on animal emotions. Thanks a bunch! 12/27/2006
Bob Great article I knew it all along! 10/31/2006
12 year old boy twelve year old boy is not a fulltime treehugger 9/13/2006
12 year old boy the halo name of 12 yyear old boy is crude shadow fox if you have played with him. 9/13/2006
12 year old boy Of course animals have feelings and personalities. My dads dog Cloey has been very smart about begging for food. She will rest her head on your knee and look up at you while you are eating. the most obvious animal feelings are the way elephants hold a type of funeral passing the bones of relatives around and sometimes crying. I ounce read an article about elephants gathering from all over in mourning after a train hit a herd of elephants. Witnesses reported the elephants not letting workers near and that a majority of the elephants were infact crying. Chimps don't even need to be talked about, we all know that they have feelings. 9/13/2006
dylan mcnamara
i belive the same thing my dog is a welsh corgi and I notisd that he has the four amotion I even have kitten they both have a strong bond with each other it's like their brothers
5/17/2006
Agent Al 1:21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
1:22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
1:23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
1:24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
1:25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
1:30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
1:31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

What else is there?
11/2/2004
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