Considering mammals are so close to us biologically, do you think they (dogs, cats, horses, cows, pigs, etc.) are capable of having the gamut of emotions that characterize human beings (jealousy, envy, shame, guilt, happiness, joy, anger, sadness, etc.)?
2006-07-30 21:27:56 · 14 answers · asked by tlakkamond 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
Yes and they can be adversely affected by the nuerosis and psychosis of Humans.
2006-08-06 23:33:27 · answer #1 · answered by LeBlanc 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope! It is'nt! Just because psychology is a behaviour in group! Think humans themselves are not alike in terms of psychology. Animals are different types of habitants! Their lifestyles are different! Each are unique! With your list, animals have all like jealous, envy, shame, guilt, happiness, and more you mentioned. But, they have no relation to human beings! Humans, as a part of their memory system have a component called long term memory, which most of the animals lack. Most of the emotions are more vulnerable with long term memory! When jealous, envy, shame, guilt will be in the minds of human for a long time making a plan to overcome this. But animals are free..! Just like children..! They forget things very soon! Every thing instances and recent in animals world. Think of a dog, when you keep on stoning at it for ten times, from eleventh time it runs of whenever it happens to see you! But, once you throw a biscuit or do a favour, it totallty forgets everything and licks at your feet! And this one time moment will last for a long time till you give him another beat.
Have I been in track?
Ok! forget about that..! I was wondering why a dog doesn't bark when it's in need of food, while other animals like cat, crow, sheep, cow produces their respective sounds when in need of food? Does the dog is aware of the quality of the pitch he/ she has? :-)
I think a lot more to explore through animal kingdom... :-)
2006-07-31 00:50:38 · answer #2 · answered by Artin 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is not a scientific or proven answer. I'm just going to express my opinion on this question. I think dogs are very emotionally similar to us. I have 2 dogs and you can see mostly how they feel by the expression in their eyes. A lot of people think that you can say anything to them and they won't be offended as long as you say it in a nice tone of voice but I find that to be incredibly wrong. They just seem to know what you are feeling. They get jealous when you have your girlfriend/boyfriend over. They basically act like a person.
Scientifically. It's probably an ape though..
2006-07-30 21:32:26 · answer #3 · answered by spork551 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most of the emotions you list (except jealousy) play a role in interaction with tribemates. So I guess that only highly social animals such as monkeys, rabits, dolphins and dogs have emotions similar to ours. I'm a cat-owner myself and I love cats but I don't think their emotions are equally evolved as those of humans and dogs.
2006-07-30 21:36:32 · answer #4 · answered by helene_thygesen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No their various adaptations of body style would necessitate a deeper relationship with their environment and therefore the different range and intensity of "psychological experiences" while they might have some of the emotions we do I don't think they really have the full range of emotions we do and their responses are much more dictated by reflexive behavior and thus a smaller range of behaviors is possible.
2006-08-05 12:47:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get a dog! My dog whines when he wants to play. He glares at you when we are eating dinner. He lifts his front paw off the ground when he's playing. Animals have all the emotions that humans, they just can't speak like us.
2006-07-31 09:08:41 · answer #6 · answered by April O 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
definately. they have feelings like humans do (im not too sure on jealousy though lol). they feel guilt (which is obvious in house breaking) and sadness of course (when it loses a lifetime friend they will sometimes die from depression). but yes, i would definately say so.
2006-07-30 21:32:11 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mammals definitely experience emotions. For people with mammal pets, it's easy to identify with their emotions since they are tied to the human-pet interaction. Other wild mammals are harder for us to share emotions with since they are tied to the environment.
2006-07-30 21:35:10 · answer #8 · answered by JB 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes they can. My hamsters used to be jealous of one another due to the fact that I was a little bias. My rabbit won't play with me cause she's angry when I don't allow her to bite the cage.
They do have emotions, they are living things
2006-07-30 21:31:27 · answer #9 · answered by isabsy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many people think monkeys and dolphins do but it's difficult to say because we can NOT communicate with them. Until we can (consider it's difficult to enough communicating with other "humans"), we will find out for sure.
2006-07-30 21:32:31 · answer #10 · answered by John Z 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋