Do animals have emotions?

Without a doubt. Its not even necessary for science to confirm this.

 

Of course they do. It's not even debatable.

 

Yes. You can easily see emotions in dogs; they're happy, they're sad they're afraid, sorry, depressed, etc.

 

I think that was proven a long, long, long time ago.

 

Forget the animals for a minute. Consider the horrors man has perpetrated on man. You should have known that already.

 

Yes, this was proven a long time ago. It's the reason that certain animals are used when studying the effects of mood altering drugs.

 

Animals have two emotions...hunger and anger. When you feed them they're no longer hungry, just neutral. You piss them off, they're angry.

 

I guess it all depends on what the emotion is.

-TNC

 

That's not true. We know for a fact mice can feel depressed, for example.

 

^That's a ******ed way of thinking. Their only emotions are hunger and anger? I thought you were smarter than that.

 

No, and they don't feel pain either.

 

Having worked with animals for the past six years and having lived with cats for as long as I can remember, I will tell you that without a doubt animals have emotions that are as varied as ours. The emotional range depends on how intelligent the species is. Goldfish aren't terribly emotional at all, but an octopus will literally play when happy and sulk when depressed. Dogs and cats will show a whole rainbow of emotional states, from simple ones such as joy and sadness, to the complex such as love and hate. Dolphins, some parrots and chimps have been proven to have emotional states that are nearly identical to humans, with the ability to express highly complex emotions, such as shame.

 

Go kick a bear in the balls and tell me that.

 

Nevermind, it's INSECTS that don't feel pain. If they did, they'd scream like everything else.

 

NO- Animals have no emotions.They are cybernetic killing machines from the future sent to kill anyone named Sarah Conner.

 

You need vocal cords to accomplish that, doesn't mean they don't feel it.

 

Yes they have emotions...I believe they have a soul as well

 

fixed.

 

Elephants even grieve.

Where have I heard that before?

 

I'm sure they do have emotions, but a lot of times there are animals that will seemingly just go crazy and into defense mode for no reason whatsoever, even if you were kind to them. You can't read them all that well, it's mostly trial and error.