do animals laugh as human?if there are please send to me some pictures about that?
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Chimpanzees have a behaviour similar to a laugh, a low repeated barking call, it is essentially a submissive call used after a dominant member of the troop does something the lower ranked chimp approves of, or wants the dominant member to think he approves of.  There may be some of this behaviour in our own laughing, and may be why some folks seek out making other people laugh, or why we feel obligated to laugh at the boss's jokes.\n\nThere is also calls like the hyena's or pie-billed grebe that sound superficially like human laughter, but really aren't.
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I have just read some of the answers and some are unbelievable. Animals don't think?? Now that is really silly.  As to the question there are recorded incidents of animals with higher intelligence such as the great ape species taking some sort of retaliatory actions as acts of revenge and I have heard that elephants will do so and they do have excellent memories.  Dolphins are also very intelligent so maybe they do so as well but I don't think anyone has recorded this
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It's clear that humans and animals (especially those close to us in the evolutionary tree), share similar chemical responses in their brain when faced with highly emotional situations.  Whether it be fear, contentment, mating urges, we have a lot of analogous mechanisms going on.  On this basis alone, there is a pretty strong argument that animals have feelings.\nOne possible counter-argument, however, is based on the definition that for certain chemical responses to be called feelings, that the being in question needs to have a conscious awareness of their state.  With this defition, it becomes much harder to say whether animals experience feelings in the same conscious manner even though the neurochemical signatures are similar.\nMy opinion is that this definition based on conscious understanding is a little specious, as it's based on an ongoing desire by some to try to define humans out of the context of the natural world... and to claim that we are categorically better than the other animals.  \nIf the neurochemical basis for consciousness is ever discovered we'll be able to quickly check which animals have this, and I suspect we'll find that many are conscious.  If this is so, then their feelings will be as real as human ones in all senses.
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Interesting that you should ask....Jacques Cousteau had made some very interesting observations on the subject. He noted that dogfish do indeed wag their tails when happy. More interesting tho was the fact that catfish purr when pleased and sea horses jumped for joy. Star fish glow at the thought of a visit from you, and on occasion a clam will show his mussels with pride.\n\nIf there's one thing I know, Cousteau otter know his fishes.
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Your question doesn't make sense.  You are choosing behaviors that are dog behaviors and then asking why they are unique.  Different species have different behaviors.  There are things that humans do that no other animal does too.
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Are people suppose to like animals?
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I was at a party; the host of this party had a large dog with very pronounced male genitalia.\n\nWe were standing around. . a bunch of middle-aged suburban couples with drinks in their hands, (no it was not a very good party) when the dog, presumably to liven things up started to masturbate with its tongue. There was a silence broken only by the frenzied lapping of the dog.\n\nI said, 'I have heard of dogs looking like their owners but this is ridiculous'\n\nIt did not go down (the remark I mean - the dog continued happily to consummation) well at all.
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Our understanding of the emotion love is limited.  I do not believe that animals can fall in love with people in the traditional sense of the word.  Animals can have an affection for people, but our understanding of that affection is questionable at best.
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Yes they certainly do, all these emotions and more. They even love and show their affection very generously. They are very sensitive, and often more sensible than some humans. \nThey nurture their young and grieve when the young are taken away/killed/harmed in any way. They fret for days if their keepers/masters are away, and even if the household pets of other species living with them are taken away/missing
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Nature sure has a sence of humor. I had a dog that was so gay. He was in love with my Redneck neighbor's dog. They were totally in love. My neighbor couldn't handle having a gay dog and built a pen so his dog couldn't jump my fence anymore. His dog wouldn't jump into anyone elses yard or out into the hood. He would come over and make sweet love to my dog. I had another male dog in my yard then as well and my other neighbor had two females. The females would jump my fence and get down with my other male dog. My gay dog and the Redneck's dog would have nothing to do with them. Thinking back on it, I had a backyard brothel.....
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I knew beore reading your joke that monkeys could read!\n\nHere on Yahoo Answers we have a zooooooooooooooo of em.
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Very little is unique to humans.  Most of what we consider "unique" is only something we do more of than other animals.\n\nFor instance, we're the smartest animals, but hardly the only smart ones.  Our brains are large, but the brains of many whales are larger.  Opposable thumbs are found in the other great apes at least.  Speech of a sort may be found in other animals, we can't really rule it out.\n\nSome of the answers received thus far are wrong.\n\nChimpanzees feel shame and blush.\n\nIt's not clear that other animals don't have philosophy or religion (how exactly would you tell?)\n\nOther animals seem self aware, or at least recognize that what they see in the mirror is "them".\n\nEmpathy is recorded from primates.\n\nChimpanzees have morals in as much as there are behaviors frowned upon socially amongst them.\n\nAnd as for bipedal, all birds, kangaroo, and kangaroo mice are bipedal.\n\nI sometimes suspect the only unique thing about humans is the arrogance to think we're unique.  :-)
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Of course all ‘higher’ animals enjoy having sex of course. Do you think they do it because they have rationalised that several months later the act will result in puppies?\n\n‘Lower’ animals like fish or invertebrates probably don’t enjoy it. It’s just a preprogrammed instinct and about as enjoyable as a washing machine going through a spin cycle.\n\n\nI have no idea where this myth that only dolphins and apes have sex for fun comes from. Quite clearly humans are the only species of mammal that has sex for any reason except for fun.\n\nWhile some humans will have sex for reproduction or out of obligation even if they don't or can't enjoy it no mammlas have that capability.
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Humans like to think we are special and unique and different than our animal brethern, but are we?\n\n1. We share many characteristics, instincts, genetics, phenotypes etc with animals\n\n2. We use tools, but so do many animals, contrary to what was believed previously.\n\n3. We have languages, but the animals appear to as well, and appear to be able to understand some of language (dogs, horses, chimps). Some animals, like chimps, have been taught to use sign language and even type on computers, and some claim appear to use language creatively. \n\n4. Some animals have similar ratios of brain mass to body mass as humans, or even have better ratios. Many cetaceans might be as intelligent as humans, but not have the ability to manipulate the environment in the same way since they do not have hands. \n\nSo the entire premise of this question is a bit suspect, frankly.
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Well, my answer is not as funny as the one above but...\n\nNO, They have large patches between their legs and on their bellies that are not striped
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Yes it is.\nThe ability of laughter to cause laughter indicates that humans might have "auditory feature detectors"--neural circuits that respond exclusively to this species-typical vocalization". These detectors trigger the neural circuits that generate laughter. A laugh generator that is initiated by a laugh detector may be why laughter is contagious.
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Animals is a fairly broad category.  Coral and Sea sponges are animals, but I would hesitate to say that you can insult one and hurt its feelings.  As we go into more evolved animals, we get to social insects, such as honey bees, which appear to not have highly developed emotional feelings, but they certainly do think.  They will carry their dead far out of the hive and drop them in the woods.  When a forager finds food, she comes back to the hive and does a complicated little dance involving distance traveled and the angle of the sun related to the hive.  \n\nNow when a lot of people think of the question "Do animals have feelings?"  dogs and cats are the first animals that come to mind.  When it comes to them, the answer is unquestionably yes.  if you are mean to a dog, it is going to be afraid of you for a long time.  After my dog would misbehave and I had to growl at him he would come to me an hour later and lightly lick my hand to appologize.  So yes, dogs and most likely cats have feelings.\n\nNow on to the least thought about animal, humans.  All humans do in fact have feelings.  Some seem to not have any, but all people have feelings at some level.