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Animal emotions
The recent photos of Gana, a gorilla in the process of grieving over her dead baby's body, has raised many questions about the nature of animal emotion
It's clear from images such as Gana's, that animals experience deep and enduring emotions from exuberant and contagious joy...
...to enduring grief and sadness
Animals move through the world with likes and dislikes and preferences just like we do
Some might consider the notion of animals feeling emotion as being too sentimental...
...but it is merely an extension of Charles Darwin’s ideas about evolutionary continuity, that the differences among species are differences in degree rather than differences in kind.
In many ways science is catching up with what we already knew about animal passions...
...and as a result of recent research into the emotional lives of animals, the number of skeptics is rapidly dwindling. Emotions are the gifts of our ancestors. If humans have them, other animals must too
