Do animals have feelings?
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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.
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Most mammals will produce tears in response to extreme pain or other stimuli, but crying as an emotional reaction is considered by many to be a uniquely human phenomenon, possibly due to humans' advanced self-awareness. Some studies suggest that elephants and gorillas may cry as well.
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Wild or animals that don't have constant contact with humans don't show that type of emotion.  But housepets do show some type of affection and or acknowledgement for humans.
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Are people suppose to like animals?
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Yes they can. Their senses are much more acute than ours. They can hear the rumblings below and the first to be aware are birds. This also triggers off the bears instincts that something abnormal will happen though they don't know exactly what.
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dogs don't really understand you, they are just picking up on your emotions.  but they do love you unconditionally though.
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I'm sure in the zoo they do.  \n\nAt the Atlanta zoo, a tiger paced a path along the perimeter.  I saw him walk around and around, you could almost see the frustration and sadness in his stride.  It made me sad.  \n\nI'm against caging wild animals or keeping them as house pets.
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No animals do not hate, they are incapable of it. The may dislike the presence of a rival of thier own kind but it is because of competition not hatred. Hatred is a human concept and does not exist in nature.
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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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Regardless of what our opinions are, we have no way of knowing what any other animal's emotions are regarding sex-We have no idea if they feel pleasure, because we can't define that in other animals.  Other animals certainly feel compelled to have sex, and afterwards generally display behaviours associated with relaxation and satisfaction (such as is seen after eating a large meal).  But to say we know whether an animal is feeling pleasure gives us a lot more credit for understanding the inner workings of other animals than we deserve.
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Point taken and understood,but a life is a life.Wouldn't you want someone to think of you when you are gone?Once again, it goes back to human emotion.Even some animals show emotion.
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the way a horse knows it won is if it received praise from the jockey/trainer/owner.  they are trained to run fast and that is all.  on the other hand, the subject of whether or not animals have/exhibit emotions is a great debate
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Same way our pets understand each other, I guess?
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Awww.....that's how my dog makes me feel, too.  If I cuddle with him, I instantly feel better.  Shhhh....don't tell anyone.  LOL
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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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Ants do not have feelings.  Science has verified by functional MRI and earlier brain ablation studies, that "feelings" originate from distinct locations in the vertebrate brain.   It is known that ants do not have a centralized nervous system (aka: a brain).  Instead of a brain, they (along with other arthropods like spiders, scorpions, crabs and lobsters, for example) possess clumps of ganglia (a collection of neuronal cell bodies) which are distributed down the length of their bodies which integrate neuronal feedback from external receptors (chemoreceptors, for example, on their antennae).  They can communicate to other ants by chemical signals and can see light because they have photoreceptors within their compound eyes.  These signals get processed by the closest ganglia, and this is the extent of their neuronal function.  The mammalian brain, on the other hand, sends all of its signals to one distinct location- the brain- where they get processed and thus we have what we call thoughts and feelings.  Insects have a very primitive, less evolved nervous system than that of mammals, though.  Since they lack the physical machinery where thoughts/feelings originate from, they physically cannot produce thoughts/feelings, therefore.
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you no why? because they have animalas feelling and i am not jokking,they want one thing in my mind .