valR
19 Answers
Chiangmai
jhharlan
dowsa
daren1
Love and having an eternal soul..What other animal on earth will harbor another animal..
| 12 years ago. Rating: 18 | |
Ann
Evil. Man contemplate and do evil things. Animals have a pure soul. they are not evil.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 17 | |
valR
CHAIN
padovenick
doolittle
Oh my...Animals have souls, they love, they will often take care of others, and they have a great sense of humor!!!!!!!!!!!!! They aren't huge cleaners..they either dont care or they move on....I have been trying to get them to clean for me for years! LOL
| 12 years ago. Rating: 15 | |
My animals only clean up when they think they're going to get fed or rewarded!!!
pikkutiikeri65
Humans can have sex when ever they wont to. BTW animals have souls too.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 13 | |
An Apple a day keeps the doctor away & humans are the only ones I know that lie about each other
| 12 years ago. Rating: 12 | |
millie111
yeah...shopping is my type of medicine too!!...(Retail therapy..with a friend...that way it`s too meds in one)...Well THREE WHEN you count the sedatives the Dr..might have to give you when you get your bank statement)!!..Or could be FOUR ..If your Bank manager requests them too!!!...LOL...THATS A LOT OF MEDS...MAYBE YOU`RE RIGHT...MAYBE LAUGHTER IS BEST IN ITSELF!!!;-)
| 12 years ago. Rating: 12 | |
Tommyh
Kookaburras laugh.In harmony too!
| 12 years ago. Rating: 10 | |
I don't know why but it does.
Merry merry king of the bush is he
Laugh kookaburra, laugh kookaburra
Gay your life will be.
Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree
Eating all the gumdrops he can see
Stop kookaburra, stop kookaburra
Save some drops for me.
Bob/PKB
Shootah
lindilou
Russrocks
Val: I used to think intelligent thought, but now I'm not so sure... :) (Just Kidding. No cards or letters, please.) But seriously,
1. the ability to communicate through speech,
2. the ability to express emotions (some would argue this point, but there is no scientific proof I am aware of),
3. as mentioned already, the need to wear clothing over genetalia, and
4. self-actualization, at the top of Mazlow's hierarchy of needs.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 4 | |
Sunday, 15 February 2009
by Holly Hight
Cosmos Online
Moody apes: Both in captivity and in the wild, apes show a range of emotions.
Credit: Thomas Lersch
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CHICAGO: Apes demonstrate a full range of emotions, including grief and empathy, scientists have discovered.
These emotions have been observed in several species of great apes, both in captivity and in the wild, said Barbara King, an anthropologist at the College of William and Mary in the U.S. city of Williamsburg, Virginia.
In a presentation at this year's annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, she showed a video of a family of captive gorillas, in which a large silverback male got into a fight with a younger male.
Empathic response
The youth refused to back down, though the fear on his face was obvious. Other gorillas showed empathy by trying to intervene on the younger male's behalf.
The emotions of primates have previously been documented in studies that have looked at incidences of grooming, infant gestures, and aggression in males, said King, but this study is different in that it looks at the spontaneous expression of emotions in day-to-day social interactions.
There is more to learn by looking at the gorillas' emotions in the context of their social encounters, she added.
Paul Ekman is a retired psychology professor from the University of California in San Francisco, and author of an introduction to a 2009 commemorative version of Charles Darwin's book, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals.
Universal emotions
Like Darwin, he believes that facial expressions are not based in culture, but are biological in origin. "Darwin argued that emotions are discreet and they're universal," said Ekman.
King warns, though, that we have to be careful not to misinterpret animal emotions. A grin in a chimp could be a show of fear, she said, though we may interpret it as joy. What has been discovered about the emotions of apes teaches us something about ourselves. "We wouldn't be human in the ways we are human if the apes hadn't been deeply emotional creatures," King said.
The emotions of primates, she added, give us new insight into the evolution of our own emotions and the way they relate to human institutions, even religion. "Religion is emotional at its root," said King, adding that an understanding of the emotions of primates is necessary to understanding human culture, religion, and language.
Thanks, lindilou, I stand corrected, but apes are only one species. Are there others that can display emotions?
Also, does anybody know what "self-actualization" means? I never did understand that.
I know that animals make noises, but are they really communicating with each other other very primal things like "Danger! Run!"?
| 12 years ago. Rating: 2 | |
