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Grief in Animals: It's Arrogant to Think We're the Only Animals Who Mourn
Animals  (tags: grief, unhappiness, emotions, animals, feelings, bonding, friendships, lovev )

Simone
- 45 days ago - psychologytoday.com
There is no doubt that many animals experience rich and deep emotions. It's not a matter of if emotions have evolved in animals but why they have evolved as they have. We must never forget that our emotions are the gifts of our ancestors, our animal kin.
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Do Animals Have Souls?
Animals  (tags: animals, emotions, souls, pet loss, humans, feelings )

Simone
- 145 days ago - examiner.com
I was talking with a co-worker the other day and he informed me that animals do not have emotions. This is just after he told me (the day that I put my dog of 17yrs down) that animals do not have souls and therefore will never enjoy the concept of heaven
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Dogs and Cats Do Grieve, So Give Them Time - and More Attention
Animals  (tags: animals, grief, sadness, loss, bonding, time, loneliness, feelings, emotions )

Simone
- 279 days ago - montrealgazette.com
Yes, pets do grieve. In a sense, what you're also asking is, do pets have feelings? Dr. Allen Schoen notes: "Our dogs and cats have the same neurotransmitters we do, and the same neuro-hormones (as people) - and in the same parts of the brain. Why
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Creature Features
Animals  (tags: animals, behaviours, emotions, book, AnimalWelfare, environment, pets, protection )

Cher
- 303 days ago - boston.com
The book, a sort of instructional manual on the core emotions that make animals - cats, cows, pigs, chickens, tigers even - tick, and how we can keep them happier and mentally healthier, provides an illuminated tour, using the latest research available.
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In Dealing With Death, Are Animals Just Like Us or Pretty Much Unaware?
Animals  (tags: animals, emotions, grieving, death, humans, nature, wildlife )

Tom
- 469 days ago - nytimes.com
Last week the Internet and European news outlets were flooded with poignant photographs of Gana, an 11-year-old gorilla at the Münster Zoo in Germany, holding up the body of her dead baby, Claudio, and pursing her lips toward his lifeless fingers.
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The Psychology of Animals
Animals  (tags: animals psychology, emotions, feelings, bonding, friendships, love, protection )

Simone
- 638 days ago - buzzle.com
Of course animals seem to understand our moods, they know what exactly is coming after possibly having read our facial/bodily expressions, and in many cases animals are able to solve problems, almost with insight. If a caged bird is able to move out of
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How Smart Are Pigs? - VIDEO
Animals  (tags: pigs, intelligence, emotions, suffering, miserable lives, cruelty, factory farming, clever, brilliant animals )

Simone
- 647 days ago - pigad.blogspot.com
You may have had someone tell you pigs are pretty smart animals. If not, you could be surprised to learn that some think their intelligence rivals that of dogs. In any case, what follows is an interesting link and a video showing a pig in action.
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Animals Have Emotions Too
Animals  (tags: animals, emotions, personality, morality, feelings, protection, suffering, wildlife )

Tom
- 647 days ago - nzherald.co.nz
Elephants experience grief, mice feel empathy, rats get excited about their friends, sharks get mad and koalas have likes and dislikes. Crocodile mums care for their kids, squid can be shy, fish can have addictive personalities and coyotes get the blues.
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Animals Who Heal Children - PETITION
Animals  (tags: animals, bonding, therapy animals, abused children, emotions, support, animal love, rescuers )

Simone
- 660 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Ten-year-old Laura* had been the victim of sexual and emotional abuse. After being removed from her unsafe home, she was placed in foster care. Animals have the power to heal - sign this pledge to support Denver Pet Partners and other animal-assisted
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Do Dogs Feel Love?
Animals  (tags: dogs, love, emotions, animals, AnimalWelfare, protection, pets )

Cher
- 670 days ago - petloverstips.com
We feel tremendous love for our dogs, and our dogs sure seem to love us. But is a dog really capable of emotions? Or are we just projecting our feelings onto our dogs? Scientists avoid the subject because part of what sets humans apart from the animals
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Tusker Tantrum Triggers Debate on Circus Animals
Animals  (tags: circus animals, chained, mistreated, rampage, emotions, elephants welfare, wild animals illegal wildlife traffickin )

Simone
- 718 days ago - sify.com
The violent, erratic behaviour of an elephant at a city circus about a week ago has triggered debate on the treatment meted out to animals in captivity. Animal rights activists are saying the circus authorities were not taking proper care of Bhola,
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Tiger Behaviour-Tigers Are Not Mindless Killers
Animals  (tags: tigersw, instincts, emotions, wild animals, behaviour )

Simone
- 718 days ago - expertclick.com
Tigers are not mindless killers, but they are, and always will be, wild animals and will react to agitation and stress in an instinctually aggressive manner. They should be respected for what they are, and neither should they be treated as mindless
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Animals Do the Cleverest Things
Animals  (tags: animals, intelligence, emotions, compassion, brilliance, wild animals )

Simone
- 736 days ago - animalliberationfront.com
The chimp who outwits humans; the dolphin who says it with seaweed; the existential dog An elephant that never forgets its extended family, a chimp that can outperform humans in a sophisticated test of visual memory and an amorous male dolphin that
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Study Finds Animals Have Personality
Animals  (tags: animal personalities, fish personalities, animals, intelligence, emotions )

Simone
- 748 days ago - canada.com
Fish have personalities. Ordinary Canadian brook trout exhibit different traits: some social, others not. Some risk-takers, others scaredy-fish. And so on. University of Guelph scientists noticed the different personalities as they sat by the
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Elephants Hate Hunters, Don't Mind Farmers
Animals  (tags: elephants senses, intelligence, emotions, elephants, survivors )

Simone
- 749 days ago - blogs.nature.com
Elephants can recognize differences between human ethic groups, according to a paper published last week. Lucy Bates, of Scotland's University of St Andrews, found that Kenyan elephants distinguish between Maasai and Kamba men using colour and smell clue
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