Animals Have Human Emotions

Dog owners have been saying it for years: "Dogs are really just four-legged, furry humans." And now science backs it up! Researchers trained dogs to lay still in an FMRI machine and what they found is sure to make you go "awwwwww."
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"Because of dogs' prolonged evolution with humans, many of the canine cognitive skills are thought to represent a selection of traits that make dogs particularly sensitive to human cues. But how does the dog mind actually work? To develop a methodology to answer this question, we trained two dogs to remain motionless for the duration required to collect quality fMRI images by using positive reinforcement without sedation or physical restraints."
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"While considerable research has addressed the function of animal vocalizations, the proximate mechanisms driving call production remain surprisingly unclear. Vocalizations may be driven by emotions and the physiological state evoked by changes in the social-ecological environment, or animals may have more control over their vocalizations, using them in flexible ways mediated by the animal's understanding of its surrounding social world."
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[@RainbowPowerRangerX]

"When a recording of their buddy played, their mood improved, and they'd go hunting around in the tank to find their lost friends." Well, that's heartbreaking.

[@livingmydream2427]

word

[@hectorpalacios5527]

+SelfAwarePedant To hunt dolphins, people catch a member of the family for catching the others. Dolphins don't left family behind.

[@t4705mb6]

Anyone with empathy who has gotten to KNOW an animal would never doubt their intelligence or range of emotions.

[@t4705mb6]

***** You are either a 37 year old unemployed idiot living in the basement of your parents home stuffing your gob with GMO poisons and guzzling toxic laden brews or ... (my best guess) ... you're twelve years old doing your misguided stupid best to be .... "cool". Either way... pretty SICK!.

[@t4705mb6]

Silk Underwear I would never even consider your scenario which I find totally disgusting and trust no one .... ever. Thanks for the affirmation.

[@carlangaz007]

t4705mb6 science isn’t just about doubting, but about proving that our claims are true

[@wruzzer]

@@carlangaz007 and by now it's proven that lots of animals have the same emotions as we do.

[@gcraneorigami]

My dog cries like a baby when i leave and when i come back he jumps around and runs everywhere around me and pisses himself because hes so excited. My dog has more emotional depth than i do.

[@coolmoon4382]

+Chaotic Productions they say they could have the thought and comprehension process of a 3 1/2 to 4 year old child.. Elephants a 8 to 10 year old child... friggin' amazing...

[@emmamoo435]

Cerberus XD I love your dog

[@TheCuriousNoob]

It's good to see hard proof of animal emotional capability showing up in scientific studies the past few years. It's crazy that some people think animals are autonomous robots incapable of feelings.

[@MrKawaiiMUSIC]

+The Curious Noob That doesn't mean we should stop eating animals ;) I LOVE MEAT

[@javii5326]

+Mr.KawaiiMUSIC no but will have to atleast change the way we treat them...

[@TheCuriousNoob]

Yum

[@EliaszPimpicki]

yes it should! now you know what nightmare they go through in factory farms with their emotions, to so you for a sick reason can east their highly PROCESSED AND COOKED BODIES, you don't love meat, you love what sickos did to it. and your tongue is playing you. plants are delicious just the way they are.

[@TheCuriousNoob]

Plants are delicious especially when sprinkled with meat

[@SesshReincarnated]

Science is finally catching up to pet-owners.

[@Smiles5s5s]

May I bring up an idea? What your comment means to me is that pet owners have had the "wisdom" to recognize that animals have emotions all along, possibly because they have some sort of a fondness or respect for animals. If that is your intended description of pet owners, then I think calling them "owners" kind of undermines this positive view of them. I think calling a person the "owner" of an animal shows that the "owner" has the attitude that they are entitled to, as the title implies, OWN another sentient being. Most pet owners I've ever encountered own animals because they like what the animal provides FOR THEM. They are using that animal for their personal entertainment. (i.e. they make their pets do pointless tricks that ONLY serve to entertain the owner. Just think about that, why would a person ever derive satisfaction from another being doing their bidding? Would you derive satisfaction from commanding your friend to do some action and watching as they obey you?) A lot of them got that animal from a pet store, which means they paid for some poor abused dog in a puppy mill to be empregnated with a new puppy ( on an instrument the industry itself calls a "rape rack"). Most pet owners eat other animals, which means they pay for those animals to go through horrifying conditions that they would NEVER put their beloved pets through. And if those pet owners are so observant of their pets, they'd most likely be able to detect that the animals they eat also have emotions if they just got to know them. So when I see the term "pet OWNERS" in the context of implying that pet owners love and care for animals, my hippocricy alarm goes off. What do you think of this idea?

[@amandasmith593]

Ellie D I think I used the wrong term. I adopted my pets and they are part of my family. I have lived with animals my whole life and am well familiar with their emotional depth. However, I am also aware that they are not sapient. My cats were rescued from the streets where at least one of them almost died. I care for them and make the choices they cannot. I love my pets, I recognize their emotions, but I do not delude myself with the notion that they are sapient.

[@DrPonner]

S miles, why do you sound suspiciously like a PETA supporter? I never considered myself to be the "owner" of my pets though. Alternatively, doesn't one's own parents more or less own you until you're 18?

[@Smiles5s5s]

***** lol does it sound like I'm a PETA supporter because I'm advocating for respecting animals? It says right on their homepage that animals are not ours to use for food or entertainment. Or something like that. Does it really matter why I sound like a PETA supporter though? Does whether or not I support PETA mean anything in this conversation? That's cool that you don't consider yourself an owner of your pets. What do you consider yourself in relationship to them then? If your relationship is such that you respect their body autonomy, do you extend the same right to body autonomy to other animals and therefore refrain from eating them? Idk what the legal standing on parent ownership of their kids is. I'm pretty sure people can't just own other people lol.. but if I had kids I wouldn't think i own them because I think every sentient creatures belongs to themselves. I don't see how I can possibly have any claim to their body when they are perfectly capable of owning themselves being that they are their own consciousness. I'd view myself as more of a guardian of them until they can be old enough to be their own guardian. But they'll always be their own owner.

[@DrPonner]

S miles Yes it does matter that you sound like a PETA supporter, because why should I take the opinion of a joke? Because that is what PETA is. They are like the Evangelical Christians of the Dietary World, knocking on your door prosyletizing you and they somehow fool themselves into thinking they have the moral high-ground. _Most pet owners eat other animals, which means they pay for those animals to go through horrifying conditions that they would NEVER put their beloved pets through. And if those pet owners are so observant of their pets, they'd most likely be able to detect that the animals they eat also have emotions if they just got to know them._ It seems hypocritical at best that I spare one animal and not another, I will give you that. However what you every other fucking white knight needs to understand is that we are *OMNIVORES*, meat is an important part of our diet and our ancestors ate meat. That's why we have canines and incisors! And you know what? Animals get eaten all the fucking time! Lions eat deer! Why should we be excluded? Sure, you can respect animals, and I'd say I do too, but don't think you have the moral high ground for thinking that eating animals is bad. I don't know if you're a vegetarian, but if you are, how do you know that plants don't suffer, that they can't feel pain? There is evidence that certainly suggests that plants and jellyfish do have a neural system of sorts, it's just not all collected into a mass like a brain. Maybe you should think of the silent agony of the broccoli you eat. Factory farming, it is bad and it is careless. *Traditional* farming, however, is far more painless.

[@izthemovie]

I have lived with animals my whole life. I never thought of them having any less emotional capability than humans. I assumed it was common logic that they experience joy, sadness, guilt, excitement, and etc. just as we do. They just express it differently. I know my cat Boots loves me for me, and not just because I provide food. One day, I yelled in the living room from another cat I had back then, attacking me. Boots heard my scream, ran into the living room, and batted the other cat to tell it to bug off. Then walked up to me, meowing, as if to say, "are you alright?"

[@carcaz]

whoops wrong word usage

[@zZDiMiNiSH]

I've always felt that everything living deserves to sustain that right. Not that I feel it is morally wrong to kill a bug, but instead it should be an obligation to respect life regardless whether if it's an insect or a human being.

[@sumirose2262]

my dog howels to one song and one song only it turns out it was his old owners favorite song

[@MissJazzmineS]

Awh omg, that's heartbreaking

[@MissJazzmineS]

***** It is, if you have a heart

[@livingmydream2427]

+Jazzy Ziggy exactly

[@scarstalgia3947]

+Sumi Rose This comment actually made me tear up and cry... Your dog must be remembering how his previous owner would listen to it all the time and recall him in his memories.. ;___;

[@AustinTexas6thStreet]

They have incredible depth and capabilities!! Many times, it is OUR limitations which keep us from truly realizing how amazing and special animals can be!!

[@4BoardAllDay4]

Its pretty sad that the majority of people need this information from an outside source to understand that other species (not just dogs) are very emotional and intelligent beings. If you people simply took the time and showed curiosity and empathy towards other living beings, it truly becomes so very clear!!

[@4BoardAllDay4]

Rae Strong Why am I an asshole..?? Every species will vary with their emotions. Humans definitely experience a more broad range of emotions, however that is not to say that other species don't experience their own range of emotions, that in which are very similar to human emotions, and all species emotions. Humans and all other animals can truly love each other given the right experiences with one another. Okay.. LOOK, when you see something living , its not on auto pilot, there is SOOOO much power and purpose within all life, its mind blowing. Billions upon billions of years came into exact alignment to create us and all living things, its truly the biggest miracle, one can't even begin to comprehend. All life came into this life just as we did, I didn't sign up for this body, or time and space. Neither did anyone else, or anything else. I think its silly to think that we couldn't have been another person or another species. I respect all life as they were me. I see myself in all. Namaste and love! :)

[@Dowlphin]

***** "Not on autopilot" might be a misconception though. ;-) We might all be on autopilot and that which feels, which has the emotions, might be one and the same in every being and is tied to the observer part. This is philosophically related to the problem that you cannot know whether you forgot something you did or didn't consciously experience in the first place. But I have experienced in an experiment how a person (me) can interact with the world without experiencing it consciously.

[@lennysmileyface]

Kairi Wintearia Well according to these studies why wouldn't it you dunce?

[@rachaelnskiss]

***** you compared their emotions to humans'. Therefore, you implied that their emotion are the same in comparison. Lions do not have empathy, compassion, remorse, etc. They don't need to. Animals who travel in groups would carry these characteristics in order to work together to survive. Obviously we do because we traveled together to hunt in the cave man- ages. Same with dogs, they traveled in packs, so they carry these specific feelings. Wild cats, however, do not. As well as many others, such as crocodiles, lizards, frogs, etc. They do not depend on team work to survive. There's your real answer.

[@rachaelnskiss]

And actually, animals don't live out of emotion. They live out of pure instinct. To eat and fuck and reproduce. They don't think about it. You don't see bunnies contemplating their love deviations before they eat that lettuce. You don't see them decide whether to fuck another bunny. You don't see them decide if they want to die or naw. It's just instinct to do, not think. Nothing more.

[@JBRewind]

Humans have animal emotions, not the other way around. Humans need to stop thinking they are so special and realize that they ARE animals.

[@manoskarath]

I agree that we are animals, but we are special as well. Name one other animal that has such high intelligence that managed to go to space SEVERAL TIMES

[@allysanimalchannel]

Exactly! They were never "human emotions" in the first place - we only labelled them as such because we didn't know better. It's like old-timey racists being surprised that black people have "white people emotions".

[@istormarts6078]

Manos Karatheodorou and goldfish are the most special Because they are the only animal that can see both ultra violet and infra red light! Being the only animal capable of something Doesnt really make one special or superior.

[@egyptianqueen4007]

Humans are not animals

[@kristinnunya9942]

@@egyptianqueen4007 yeah we kinda are lol we are mammals just like a great deal of the animals out there.

[@Seeker]

Dogs are people too! Turns out animals have feels, and probably even the same emotional depth & complexity as humans: Dogs Have Feelings, Too

[@MalkhutSefirah]

I dread the day when this can be done with cats. I am not surprised that animals have similar emotional range to humans. We add a lot of flowery intellectual justification after the fact, but our emotions are deeply rooted biological instincts. It is intelligence and rational thought that came with the bigger brains.

[@MalkhutSefirah]

I wouldn't disagree with you *****. Recent research into the intelligence of the crow family and octopi is downright frightening

[@kiatonasy]

Hey, you guys should check out the emotional part of an Orca's brain. It is more emotionally developed than our own, and that means they can feel on a deeper level than we can.

[@1whitemoon]

Malkhut Sefirah I own a cat, and recently it did something that made me realize he is way more intelligent/sensitive than I thought. I've raised many animals over the years and I always thought they're simple minded, interesant creatures. anyway, I adopted the cat when he was a month old. he was in the middle of a busy highway, trying to follow random people, so I had to save it. I thought it may feel 'lonely', losing his family, so I gave him a stuffed cat doll to play and sleep with. that doll looks and feels very real, and it was as big as him. evetually it got so dirty, and the cat grew older, so I took it away from him. recently I found it and decided to wash it, and then my cat saw it and acted all weird. I gave him the doll and he took it, sat beside it for hours, sniffing and trying to 'play' with it, and refused to give it back. I was surprised, cause after a wash, he couldn't have been reacting to his own smell, and he didn't see the doll for over a year, he was just a baby then. this made me wonder: if he reacted this way to a doll, how does he feel about the "real" thing, I mean, his real siblings? he can clearly remember things from his past, and has emotions related to it. does he remember his family? I wish there was a way to know..

[@TheUltimateNatural]

Malkhut Sefirah Why is it frightening?

[@Dowlphin]

There are no "human" emotions, only emotions. The hubris of humans being so different from other animals is apparently VERY deeply engrained in mainstream minds and will take a long time of step-by-step enlightenment to get rid of. Some people are really afraid of dropping those artificial distinctions and separations. I guess it's because empathy is a responsibility. When you have empathy for other beings, it puts an additional burden on you, and naturally someone who is worried by that would not be inclined to see the benefits that it can bring. So much denial. And so-called "science", the intellectual sphere of analysis, of separating and distinguishing things, can be an escapist zone for that kind of people. When I told someone that I befriended a fly by helping it out of a problematic situation, the attempted alternative explanations I heard from him were shamefully stupid, in part because illogical as hell. In a way I can understand, since I have been shown things way farther down the line and was scared, too. But people should really try and make some effort to move out of their comfort zone. But I also understand that that will probably rarely happen without solid external incentive.

[@atruv2089]

Dᴏᴡʟᴘʜɪɴ True. (hi again) (also I only read the first sentence. I'm too lazy to read them all. Sorry about that)

[@adognamedboo9474]

Absolutely the most intelligent comment I have read on here! It is a very sad state of mind the majority of humans live in. Believing the mainstream illogical thinking of so called "science" without an open mind to question everything and find the deeper truth's, will eventually be the demise of all life on earth!

[@carcaz]

you should share your thoughts in real lfie i suppose

[@damspachercomedy]

Animal's deserve much more respect and love then we give them. Absolutely.

[@hywodena]

I think the laws would probably just change to treat other animals more like children. A lot of domesticated animals can't look after themselves in the wild, at all... Like ferrets, who would never survive alone. Like children, many animals need an older human to care after them. I love my pets and they love me as well, it is obvious when you look into their eyes that they have the same feelings as us.

[@hywodena]

What do you mean by treating children like ferrets?

[@hywodena]

Eh, I'd like to think that both ferrets and children need better treatment. But then, Children have rights.

[@RandomHelpingGuy]

Jennifer Reeves We have to kill some animals though. We can't let them know we have fear, because they'll take advantage of it and take over.

[@IHazClaws]

I would love to think that animal rights laws would be passed to protect non-human species from human harm and neglect. However, I just don't have enough faith in people to think it will happen in my lifetime if at all. I can't imagine the politicians passing laws that will tick off the various animal industries and call for enforcing new (or existing) legal standards and making them pay to make the changes necessary to treat non-human species with respect and dignity. It would also take away a false sense of superiority if they have to admit and act upon the fact that animals are not as far removed from us as their egos want to believe.

[@hywodena]

I COMPLETELY agree with 100% of that. I should have specified: I think that's the way the laws SHOULD change.

[@joshuabrown6256]

Duh animals have emotions. Youd have to be dumb to not know this...

[@alexandriadominguez5287]

Of course animals have feelings not just people, Especially dogs they have Feelings the most!😭😞

[@connorshekelstein6432]

Joshua Brown they do not have emotions they are evil

[@shwinnoronii5566]

What makes u think their evil? There must be something wrong with ur pet, wait..do u even have a pet? Does carnivorous animals that eat us makes u think their evil? No that is their nature, u cant force them to be vegan, twat!

[@TheEnchantedOak]

@@shibegameing501 In my opinion it is cruel to do animal testing.

[@TheEnchantedOak]

@@connorshekelstein6432 Animals are not evil and they do have emotions. Only an idiot and a heartless person would think they do not have emotions. I think humans are what turn animals "evil". Animals just want to live their life without having to be hunted and afraid all the time.

[@popupanimash]

i think animals have emotions just like us. how could they not? they do things like us like eat, sleep and poop. they also make friends with others but sometimes they don't.

[@Silk_Underwear]

Ah yes, pooping, the ultimate form of friendship and bonding. We should go drop a deuce sometime and get to know each other a little better.

[@popupanimash]

lol

[@TheBandScanner]

Science finally catching up to what common folk could have told you as a matter of course.

[@forevergone5]

It's dumb of people to assume that animals don't have feelings. of course they have feelings, they have souls too. human being aren't the only beings on earth that have feelings, that should be obvious.

[@kauedandrea2418]

Just the idea of an animal feeling like I do is amazing! And it is even easier now to understand why cats or dogs when a person is crying hugs the person or just comes closer in an attempt of helping. Nature will ever amaze us with all the wisdom inside of every project made.

[@lokustic]

Another reason why I love my dog.

[@dannitea9445]

My dog is my best friend c:

[@angelomordini6779]

Humans are also animals sooo

[@shyem5308]

Angelo James Mordini yeah exactly.

[@whiteobama2196]

This just continues to show how big our egos are. Of course other animals have emotions that are similar to ours.

[@BananaMike780]

"animals have human emotions" I think it's more accurate to say humans have animal emotions, or that emotions are much more basal a trait than we realize.

[@ovrava]

thats true

[@alanroberts5056]

Nagsaw bestial.basil is an herb or something...

[@Shiroakai]

From my point of view, it is very interesting to have researches that show the emotions behind an animal's attitudes. Moreover, it explains that, although their intelligence development followed a different way due to its necessity, they still experience similar human feelings.

[@stephenxlr6912]

Do animals besides mammals feel emotions similar to ours?

[@furyberserk]

Fear, rage, hunger... sexual desires to get in then get out... Yeah, pretty much the same.

[@critterfreek83]

Stephen XLR Yes, there is abundant observational and experimental evidence that they do. The emotional range gets smaller the further down the evolutionary ladder you go of course, and it's important not to get too carried away-claiming that a fish can feel gratitude for instance-but there are certainly many emotions that all vertebrates, and probably some advanced invertebrates too, appear to have in common, such as fear, curiosity, anticipation, excitement, anger, distress, and pleasure.

[@istormarts6078]

Yes, birds among others

[@Smiles5s5s]

Even if animals don't have the same depth of emotions as we do, we still have a good reason not to treat them like property because they have SOME emotion and it's clear from their body language that they don't like being used in a lot of the ways we use them. I predict that if we were to prove that animals have similar depths of emotions to us, then most people would just come up with a bunch of excuses for why it's actually ok to confine, use, and kill them for some selfish pleasure the humans derive. Basically, nothing would change from how most people react to vegans who bring up ethical arguments for not treating animals like resources.

[@RandomHelpingGuy]

We can't treat them like humans, because they'll turn on us. If I treated a bear like a human, it would kill me anyway.

[@Smiles5s5s]

RandomHelpingGuy lol what? I wasn't even talking about that, so i'm not sure if you're trying to address me or just make your own random point. In case you were trying to address me, I wasn't talking about just like introducing wild animals into society and being like "oh hey there, Mr. Lion, come have tea with us please. Let us discuss the recent law that granted you the rights to vote and marry opposite and same sex lions. Right this way plea..... OH SHIT, TAKE MY ARM OUT OF YOUR MOUTH!!!!!" I'm just advocating for not treating animals like shit. You know, not breeding cows, chickens, and pigs just to confine them in cages, mutilate their bodies and kill them. This idea has nothing to do with "treating them like ppl", it's more like just leaving them the fuck alone and not abusing them. And it has nothing to do with animals that could really fuck us up if we came close to them, like bears. So I am really confused what about my comment made you respond the way you did.

[@StormyHotwolf88]

I've had this argument with my mom and I can't believe people think animals don't have emotions. It's just ridiculous.

[@livingmydream2427]

right fucking thick headed people like just open your eyes you fucking dumbasses

[@StormyHotwolf88]

._.

[@geckoleopardo1152]

Mabye the reason people think dogs don't have emotions is because they think of emotions in a different way. If emotions are exactly what we feel then dogs don't have emotions. If emotions are responses of their brains similar to ours but not the same then yes they have emotions.

[@robintst]

I feel like this adds a new perspective to the bond I had with my cat for the 15 years she walked this Earth.

[@LJY08]

The key to equilibrium on this Earth is recognizing that all animals feel, and they probably all feel some level of emotion, it's just that that emotion will differ from ours and for different reasons. It really annoys me when scientists try to tell me that the relationship I have with my dogs is based purely on my dogs' desire to survive. It just doesn't explain the intimate behavior I experience with my dogs (and no I don't mean in a sick way, but just those intimate moments you can have with an animal where you are both enjoying each other's company). Whilst I agree that dog's needs differ from mine, I believe their emotions are very closely aligned. Dogs always know the people that like them and the people that don't. When we consider the more domesticated species of any animal, it makes sense that they would feel emotions similar to ours, as we have bred them for such purposes.

[@ronnyledezma8978]

Correction, animals have emotions just like humans.

[@Bonchio100]

They have feelings! You can feel it!

[@GraeHall]

This makes me feel less stupid for missing my dog that passed 2 years ago. I spent a lot of time with her. I picked her from the litter, I raised her from a pup. She stayed with my parents when I moved out. And whenever I go back to their place, I notice her absence. I keep looking for her at the back door, and she's not there. I thought I was dumb for missing her. But this kinda changes that. If she felt for me too.

[@GnaReffotsirk]

My dogs know if I'm down and low, so...

[@ColorlessQuarky]

My dog too!

[@ahhwe-any7434]

My dude guinea pigs Axl: who's gonna dominate who? Whiskers: I'm already over it Axl: bish... Whiskers: I'll show you what a bish is Axl: ok I'm not bored anymore Whiskers: good, bc your butt is stank anyway Axl: my bad. I have too much fur. Did the human do some good grooming tho? Whiskers: she tried. .. Axl: but scissors are scary. & I can't stay still. Everything is scary doe 🐩✋ Whiskers: 😏... 😁 But yeah. Im pretty sure my boys have emotions.

[@emmamoo435]

GnaReffotsirk my dog bear sat by me for an hour while I cried

[@noxaurum1]

Humans have animal emotions..

[@justinsteele5220]

I was once a drug addict and when I was clean for couple of months my dog walked in on me relapsing jumped ova the bed growling at me, it's the best thing that ever happen to me from that moment I have been clean I couldn't cause my dog to feel that emotion again. She is and always has been a cuddly gal apart from that day I broke her heart.

[@nothingxazriel]

Definitely! When my in laws' dog died, the other one Squirty would curl up under the tree we buried Ollie under & whine. To this day we see him curl up at that tree & cry or just lay there. It's about the saddest sad ever. I have a PTSD service dog & I rely on his emotional connection with me for him to help me in things I hadn't trained him for.

[@JazneoGaming]

Dogs can actally talk if you know there barks means. i can tell between my dogs barks

[@MrTechFox]

Yeah my dog makes a distinctive bark that means he is trapped somewhere and wants me to help him. Usually he is trapped at the bottom of the stairs because my cat is blocking the top step and my dog is too much of a pussy to try and make it passed, so he calls for me to help lol.

[@Silk_Underwear]

Yeah, but I feel that the different barks are more learned and less instinctual

[@lukethegreat101]

MrTechFox Moments like that it because hard to tell who has trained who.

[@mikevestbeforelight134]

You are so right. i can tell when my cat says it wants food, wants to go outside and when it have catched a mouse.

[@GizmoGardener]

i agree with that! i can tell my cat charlie's meows from my cat kiki's meows and then my dog bells bark is different from any other dogs bark. and sometimes she has different emotions to tell me whats wrong and things. If you listen you can tell theres emotion in dogs

[@xxsamuroxx456]

Well of course they do. I can't believe it took us years to understand the animals have emotions.. On the bright side, at least we have evidence for it and we can go way more in depth with it. I've always known for SOME reason that animals have emotions. But.. I don't know about fish or anything like that. But I always thought that mammals did. Hence, Watership Down. Read it. It's a story about bunnies.

[@CHLOCHLOLP]

I think fish do too, because whenever I am about to feed my fish they get really energized, sorta.

[@xxsamuroxx456]

Chlo P Lol. Yup, that'll tell you.

[@xxsamuroxx456]

Brittney O. Wth are you talking about..?

[@xxsamuroxx456]

Brittney O. Oh. I am no book. I am a box.

[@xxsamuroxx456]

Brittney O. You don't watch Cr1tiKaL, do you.

[@ashleighrteasdale]

I work in a dog rescue centre and sometimes we get in dogs that have come in together. Sometimes these dogs are very attached to the other dog and putting them in separate kennels causes them a lot of stress, but they are only happy when reunited with their friend (not just any other dog). I'd say that this proves that dogs have emotions, even if they are not as strong as in humans

[@luizfelipezanchettadeolive1101]

It is wonderful to see the difference between human beings and animals. Sometimes we could see similarities with human behavior like how they find a friend as the chimpanzees.

[@RandomHelpingGuy]

The difference between animals and humans is the way we think. Animals go off natural instinct and survival instinct, and we go straight to our brain for strategy.

[@roryp7415]

I suggest you check out a TED Talk called "The Intelligence of Crows" - might make you re-think your assumptions a bit. Animals use strategy just as much as we do.

[@RandomHelpingGuy]

Ei aC Lions have a natural instinct to kill prey.

[@roryp7415]

Humans have a natural instinct to eat sugar+fat and to squeeze pimples. How does that prove anything? Crows use tools and can adapt in a pinch. They're even dropping walnuts amongst traffic to crack them open. They teach their new methods to their young. How is this "natural instinct"? How is this not "survival stragtegy"? How is everything WE do not "natural instinct and survival instinct"? Just because humans can't have complex communication with animals does not mean thathumans are the only beings capable of complex thought.

[@DrPonner]

Ei aC RandomHelpingGuy All that you mention is part of instinct. Even using our brains could be considered instinct, though people seem to think that our self-awareness makes us not instinctual, but this is an illusion. If not, then humans do often go on their instincts, e.g. for sex, also fear unleashes the flight or fight system, and then there's panicking.

[@RandomHelpingGuy]

***** Animals don't think about sex, if they wanna do it, they do it.

[@regenblad]

What kind of dog is that :o so kawaii!! :D

[@plantlady42069]

@0:04- Looks like a Dachshund @0:15- A terrier mix maybe @0:16- Kooikerhondje @0:43- Labrador Retriever @1:06- Mixed breed. Possibly Border Collie cross. @1:43- Labrador puppy? @1:47- Golden Retriever @3:05- Pomeranian (or a Pom mix) You didnt mention what dog, so i named them all. Sorry, I'm a dog nerd. :P

[@HitomiAyumu]

Crestielover Hehe nice one Sora.

[@abigaillewis6296]

Wow, what a great study to finally prove the theory of feelings in animals, particularly dogs! And an amazing example of co-evolution with our canine friends.

[@MrRobin39]

I like how you took the time to apologize for spelling errors, but not the time to actually go back and correct them.

[@benbmusic88]

Yea so imagine how tortured factory farmed animals feel.

[@phyrath5]

Why is it so few people can see the big picture? Obviously it is cruel & unhealthy to factory farm animals (it isn't healthy to factory farm plants ether), but there are, what is it now, seven billion humans on Earth, humans eat the factory farmed animals, but there's not enough to feed the what it is, seven billion humans on Earth? So the factories try to produce more, not caring at all about the animals, & the people, even if they are not able to reliably feed themselves, reproduce creating more humans that need more food. And that isn't even the full extent of it. Humans need more then just food. They need clean water, shelter, heating/cooling, & power. There isn't enough space on Earth to properly farm enough food for everyone (there doesn't even seem to be enough room to factory farm it), there isn't enough space for housing ether, humans mostly use the finite fossil fuels for power generation, heating & cooling, yet while so much of what we have is entirely finite humans seem to be intent on reproducing, ever increasing the demand for resources. Can't you see? The infinitely growing human population is the problem. At this point the most morally sound solution I have yet been able to think of would be to begin Wold War 3. Think about it for a while, humans have decided, for the most part, not to allow the extermination of groups of humans based on genetic traits or their religious beliefs, the U.N. opposes the idea of killing criminals, diseases aren't killing humans at a fast enough rate to be helpful, so what options remain but war?

[@robeatscake]

phyrath5 If every family kept their own garden of annual and seasonal, edible plants while using resources like clean water smarter, we could absolutely sustain our population. The old concept of a city full of people, who required huge mono-cultures of plants and livestock, all puts us at greater risk for insecurity while harming every environment in-between! Greater diversities of wildlife leads to more resilient, balanced environments for critters (and us). If you want your food and ecosystems treated with dignity then you've got to do it yourself :)

[@Smiles5s5s]

phyrath5 I don't really understand the point of your rant about limited resources. Are you using that as an argument for continuing to eat animals? If so, then perhaps you didn't realize that eating animals actually requires MORE resources. We feed something like 7 pounds of plant PROTEIN to make like 1 pound of animal protein. Here's what just one study found for example: Input energy was calculated taking into account labor, machinery, fuel, irrigation, herbicides, electricity and transportation. The number of kcal of input energy required to produce a kcal of energy from the product is as follows: broiler chicken (4:1), turkey (10:1), milk (14:1), pork (14:1), egg (39:1), beef (40:1) and lamb (57:1). Plant protein = 2.2:1 kcal. (Source:ajcn.nutrition.org/content/78/3/660S.long) And in the process we use up a ton of water, contribute to deforestation, produce a shitload of greenhouse gasses (the meat industry is the #1 produce of greenhouse gasses) and use up a shitload of antibiotics contributing to multi-drug resistant strains of bacteria that breed in slaughterhouses and then infect us. For example, in the US over 80% of antibiotics are used on farm animals and a lot of them don't even protect the animals from being sick, they just increase the carcass weight of the animal. Every single agiency that knows anything about biology has spoken out against this, saying its a dangerous practice. Keeping animals is tight quarters where they may be exposed to animals who have dropped dead is actually what caused the flu virus to mutate to the point where it was 1) able to be transmitted from animals to humans and 2) be super fucking deadly. You know what happened the last time the flu virus mutated so it could jump species? It became the deadliest pandemic in the human history - flu of 1918. Most flu doesn't target young people, but this one did. Over 1/4 of Americans got sick. It killed more people in 25 weeks than AIDS killed in 25 years - no wars or plagues has ever killed so many in such little time. All the new strains of stronger flu viruses have been getting discovered in factory farms where animals are kept in close quarters and in shitty conditions. The director of the World Health Organization delcared 3 greatest threats to humanity: the global food crisis, climate change and pandemic influenza. Literally all 3 of these are happening largely BECAUSE of the meat industry. If we all stopped eating meat we could feed people with the grains we use to feed animals, we would greatly reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and we would put an end to the best breeding ground for the next deadly flu virus. So if by any chance you were arguing that we NEED to keep wasting resources and treating animals like shit for the survival of humans, I hope I've changed your mind. If you want me to cite my sources, I'd be happy to do that.

[@phyrath5]

Ellie D The point was more that the large population of humans on Earth is the problem. As I said before we mostly use finite resources (or consume renewable resources at a rate that will make them finite). I think we need more education, less sexism (maybe less religion too), & more birth control. Agriculture on Earth is almost as fucked as politics, almost everything is ether resource inefficient, extremely environmentally damaging, or produces food that will cause other illnesses.

[@Smiles5s5s]

phyrath5 I see. Yeah, it does seem like a lot of important shit around us is inefficient. Unfortunately there is a giant profit to be made by all the comanies who own all the agriculture and who happen to have their hands deep in politics. I think educationg people about the dangers of certain practices can help though. These companies must be aware of the damage they are causing and they don't seem to care. But if we stop supporting them, then we can take away their power. As for needing less sexism and religion, I think that one can be achieved with talking to people and trying to persuade them that sexism and religion is illogical. I think this bc if you just tell someone 'you can't have the things you believe in anymore!" they are gonna be like "wtf, but i think i have good reason to believe those things". That's why if one disagrees with a religious person, they should both examine their reasons and see whose reasons make more sense. Basically never agree to disagree! I think people like Richard Dawkins who go around trying to address arguments for god really help. What did you think of my idea that if we stop supporting meat we can help solve the top 3 greatest problems facing humanity according to the WHO? I'm just curious to see if I convinced you to not support the meat industry at least on that basis.

[@TeslaNick2]

There's no such thing as "human" emotions, there are just emotions and all mammals have them from dolphins to rats. Some good reading on the subject: Jaak Panksepp and Robert Sapolsky.

[@egyptianqueen4007]

Of course there are human emotions

[@carcaz]

@@egyptianqueen4007 ye but dog cat ant mouse cockroach lion cheetah leopard camel rabbit squirrel plants trees giraffes monkeys elephants fish shark dolphin whale manta swordfish barracuda krill spider butterfly dragonfly birds emotions

[@igorsavioli4073]

It's really impressive the relationship between dogs and human when we talk about emotional intelligent, this video changed my concept at all.

[@Primalxbeast]

Love the tail going full speed sticking out of the MRI. Most of us could figure out the answer to this question on that alone.

[@edymasta]

Animals have emotions but they don't reason.

[@egoofhisown5410]

+edymasta Humans reason quite well as do dolphins who have very complex cultures which takes a lot of reasoning, reasoning can also be found in great apes.

[@captainzork6109]

+edymasta You're thinking about goombas, methinks. Goombas do not reason. They walk into lava

[@scarstalgia3947]

+Corné Vroomen Hahahaha xD

[@myfishislonely958]

edymasta That’s not true in the slightest.

[@matthewpettipas8233]

I think you got it reversed, it's half of humans that don't reason lol

[@Snowspring09]

This is probably one of the cutest episodes.

[@Rome274]

I don't need science to tell me what I KNOW and have witnessed time and again in spending so much time around four footed family .

[@solidspirit2365]

Emotions were in animals first, the part of the human brain that deals with feelings is the animal brain...Intellect is the human part.

[@GardeniaKirsty]

Of course animals have emotions!

[@DogRocketsCartoons]

All animals have some level of emotions. They have souls = being alive.

[@heartyunho0716]

when i skype my parents (im in China for a year), my dog will hear me and start looking around for me. She used to get up and bark at the door cause i guess she figured "well shes not in the house so she must be outside" she's since stopped running to the door but she still looks around when she hears me

[@SuperAmzy1]

My dog is so cute, when I take him on walks, I am sure he thanks me. He'll nudge or lick my hand which is holding the leash, he does this every couple of minutes. (I make him heel by the way, or he'd most probably act as if I wasn't there and pull me all over the place) It's so touching and I always feel bad because I wish I could thank him for thanking me. makes me want to cryyyy!

[@sladechimera2837]

Humans have animal emotions, because we are animals. We all inherit our emotions from the same ancestor as it's a great method for groups to survive

[@Roxxi33]

The dog at 1:30 is the cutest thing I've seen in my entire life omg

[@justal1ce665]

I am pretty sure that they have feelings. My two german shepards are like mother and son, we sent Moses (the male) off to be bred with another female and Raven didn't even eat until he got back. And when he did, she became more playful and like her normal self.

[@ohmyboo97]

What a cute puppy!!!

[@TS-wf2rn]

"Dogs are people too", love that!

[@MrHtaylor]

I cant believe it took them all this time, and even had to use an MRI scanner to figure this out.

[@1SWINZ1]

Of course they have emotions like us! They cry when their sad, they show loyalty, love, caring, they get excited, protective, they show attachment to toys/dolls/teddies. I mean, common!

[@minirnair]

we live with six dogs and see it and feel it every day.

[@cynthiaduprey9005]

awe your puppy is so cute

[@cookeidough]

awww the dog got happy when the owner came in

[@va2lilcalico]

yes. dogs have feelings. Everytime I play a song that my dad used to listen to, they start crying

[@brunamachado9625]

The capacity of the animals to think strategically and emotionally is incredible. Different than a lot of people say, the animals have different types of intelligent skills, that can be compare to our emotional intelligent, as we saw on the examples of dogs, chimpanzees and dolphins, that just like us, they have this developed feelings.

[@erinthomas9393]

My dog used to always look and act embarrassed whenever she got her coat shaved for summer.

[@TheEpere15]

I knew all of this already. Look at the countless army dog reunions, Koko the Gorilla cried when she was told her cat died. she cried. Koko has told people she is said that she doesn't have a baby, and feels sad when she watches a sad movie. If I hadn't said her she was a gorilla you would have thought she was a little girl.

[@hereshestands]

Aww I have always known my fur babies have lots of emotions but this study is pretty awesome!

[@TheCraziest4ever]

I feel like animals have emotions. My cat seems to have a similar personality as I do. We both seem to be introverted, smart (he seems kinda smart for a cat and I have a 136 IQ), lazy, etc. I know my cat probably loves me a lot. Any room I am, he is there. He always try to be around me. My cat gets mad at me when I go away on vacation, he'll actually turn his back on me until he's over it. I hear that when I am gone, he stays in my room until I get back, only leaving to eat and stuff.

[@rockstar0114]

Omg I'm in love with the dog at the end, cutest thing ever

[@Cinta-ed4mf]

I've always felt that animals can feel emotions, my father was physically abusive to our pets and they never acted like you'd think a cornered animal would, they didn't attack him back, they didn't try running away (though I do admit that one of them chewed an electric wire when I had to leave him there. (I failed him.) some of my family said that he didn't do it on purpose but I think anyone would try and kill themselves if they had him as an owner/guardian. that plus he didn't have a habit of chewing cables until I had to leave him with the animal abuser) or anything like that if anything I noticed that some of my pets had taken up similar to the same type of personality as the abuser.

[@cry2love]

Oh thank you very much, this is so nice to hear from you stranger! Have a good Funday ;)

[@suzstone5057]

My dog and I like to nap, cuddle, eat and occasionally play

[@Dayzheart]

thier eyes show emotions the tone of thier voices too. so yeah they have emotions

[@a-shockingly-generic-name]

I really like dogs as my family's first dog was my best friend for the first 11 yrs of my life and I assure that this study is rock solid and correct

[@ArtemisHayo]

SOOOOO CUTE!!! His dog

[@frankkaffy9019]

GOD BLESS YOI FOR TRYING TO TELL PEOPLE THE THINGS I DO!!!

[@SalientSoreThumb]

Anthony, I remember when you had no beard. But times have changed for me, too, and interestingly enough, I rarely play videogames. So it's like the guys at DNews were totally ahead of the game, and yet still have someone I respect on their team. Badass psychics, they are. Pretty cool info on dogs & emotion.. Seems progressive of us, as a species, to truly appreciate animals as emotional/sentient beings. OMG DAGGER (sic?)

[@wendystwitter7199]

They’re not human emotions, they’re just emotions

[@ALZulas]

OMG that dog is adorable. Also, my dog doesn't give me that look because he's ashamed. It's because he's learned that if he looks at me like that he will get pets, cause he's adorable. That's the "PLEASE PET ME" look.

[@Ryuti]

i wonder if reptiles have feelings too. my bearded dragon is like my best friend and i feel like he knows me and seeks comfort in being with me. he got severely depressed when i went back to school in september and would just mope around whereas when i spent time with him he was perky and ran around. i don't know.

[@TheBcoolGuy]

Of course they do. Haven't you ever seen a pug look all concerned and stuff? Aww, they're so sweet, I wish they didn't have all the breathing problems and stuff.

[@Meskatron]

My Dog has a best friend. They met when they were 5 months and even if they dont see each other much, when they do,. they make the best out of it. they are 1.5 years now

[@2yoyos1]

Everyones saying aww while my stomachs saying yum

[@DronkGaming]

Yes dogs have emotions! Have you not seen any of the video of dogs greeting their owners after coming back from Afghanistan?

[@Iomudh1]

That sad "TOM is that you I'm coming buddy!!!!!!"

[@gabifukuyama]

This kind of discussion is pretty important for us to increase our knowledge about other species, make our relation better and not to keep in shallow arguments about this issue, since humans beings always tend to put our specie obove the others, reproducing, again, an anthropocentric vision about the nature, which clearly is not right at all.

[@philliplamoureux9489]

Mammals are all going to be tremendously similar. This is an old video above, but last weeks(1/27/16) science news reports headlined the discovery and confirmation of empathy in rodents. We are on a planet demonstrably co-evolved to our level in all other creature's walks of life.

[@dbzfan200270]

I believe this. My kitten was abandoned and so was her playmate. I already had a cat beside her, but took in the kitten when she showed up hungry, cold, and thirsty one night. Found her owner and he claimed he was trying to find a way to get rid o f her since he was moving...so he left her outside -.- Anyway, he had another cat as well that I couldn't take and appears he did the same with her. Ironically enough this cat found my patio as well, and as soon as the kitten saw her, she went bonkers. I didn't think anything of it at first, but was new how she responded, and it was every time the cat showed up. I let my kitten outside to see what she would do, and the two cats went right up to one another, touched noses, and started playing and hanging out on the patio. It's sad...but also ties into this video and believe that animals have emotions and can recognize friends.

[@Polypoly06]

Most if not all social animals have feelings. Emotions are after all a tool to communicate intent to other members.

[@xxmariannaxx]

always thought dogs had feelings/emotions. i had two dogs growing up. one of them passed away and the other went through a depression. didn't eat well or play for several days. he walked as if he was sick. we were worried so we took him to the vet and the vet said he was healthy, just that he wasn't eating. :c

[@MonsterBeeziee711]

I always knew they had emotions.

[@Zoe-xw6jc]

Awww the puppy!

[@charlozom]

Do you want to know if your dog have emotions just look at their eyes, they are fulll of life full of understanding and love pure love, their eyes will tell you a lot of tales about their emotions. Humans should stop to think we are the only animals with emotions feellings or understanding and comprehend and learn that every single form of life matters and that they can teach us a lot . Peace.

[@imawesome2824]

Yes, I know my dog feels emotion. I hate when people treat animals like they aren't worth anything. They are just like us.

[@sierrabird3817]

awwww that dog is sooo cute

[@Opojk533]

Dagger is so cute :-)