Why do animals have feelings?

Do animals have feelings? Source: Dolphin Smile-Wonderful Animal Emotional World Author: edited by Mark Baikoff, Shi Liqun, etc. For centuries, science has generally held a negative attitude towards non-human emotional problems. But do people really know about animals? Or, how much do you know? In the book "Dolphin Smile-Wonderful Animal Emotional World", more than 50 scientists from all over the world provided a lot of convincing first-hand evidence on this controversial issue. They found that when many animals lose their children, encounter enemies, choose spouses, be cheated or face challenges, the basic structure of their emotional reactions is very similar to that of humans. This leads to the point that the emotional difference between human beings and many animals is only degree, not essence. Even familiar emotions can happen to birds, reptiles and fish in an unimaginable way. Of course, these scientists who have received long-term professional training are not in favor of simple "personification" and do not want to rush to conclusions. The thinking and evidence they provide are actually "arguing with scientific practice in the way of loving others." I hope these novel and interesting "evidences" can also arouse the thinking of countless readers, thus promoting the in-depth and breakthrough of animal emotion research.

The struggle between bonobo brothers

Have you ever been jealous of your brothers and sisters' success? Kanchi is jealous. He has long been the only "star" of the Atlanta Language Research Center. He is a bonobo.

Kanchi can use the keyboard, blow balloons, solve complex mazes and puzzles with the joystick on the computer, make stone tools and understand very difficult sentences. Besides, he has stage manners and charm, and likes to perform in front of the camera. When a film crew visits, they are usually not interested in his sister Pambanisha. They just want to film him. Once the filming is over, Kanchi wakes up in the morning to find that the film crew has left, and will be upset and refuse to leave the bedroom. Once when the photographer came to take his picture, Kanchi happened to have the flu, but the performance had to go on. Bonobos wiped their noses, cleaned their chests, and pretended to pose with their backs straight, their heads held high and their silhouettes taken. They kept this posture all the time when taking pictures. After taking the photo, Kanchi fell down again and fell into a high fever.

One day, however, his sister Pambanisha began to take part in a small competition. The London Times is very interested in her photos. When the photographer takes pictures in other places, Kanchi thinks he will also be interviewed and wait patiently. We told him that he would be next. But then, the people in The Times finally decided not to take pictures of Kanchi. He was completely defeated. That night, he bit out two long grooves on the keyboard, which made the keyboard unusable.

He also began to be very jealous of anything Pambanisha did well or was praised. His hair stood on end when she tried to make stone tools. When Kanchi felt that she was hitting the rock in the right way, and the sound was just right (the one before the right big stone was formed), he showed off in front of her, causing her to throw the stone quickly (the ape's show-off is stylized, four-legged sprint, and if you don't get out of the way, he will hit your body). When Pambanisha drew many pictures in the coloring book and clearly wrote numbers or symbols on the floor, it was obvious that Bican did a good job. He made a mess of her crayons.

The next time Pambanisha started making tools, she just hit each other lightly with a stone and looked at Kanchi with a pathetic expression, meaning "I can't do it". Kanchi's sense of male superiority was thus affirmed. He graciously condescended to make tools for her and handed them to her. Pambanisha is not only smart enough to make tools, but also knows when it is best not to do them, pretending to be incompetent, so that his brother can keep his self-image while distributing the fruits of labor.

Later, it was time to try a new electric guitar. Pambanisha and Kanchi both tried once, and it was obvious that she played better. After that, once the new guitar was mentioned again, Kanchi began to tell Pambanisha that he didn't want her to stay in this room at all. So I took her outdoors and left Kanchi. Although he screamed and begged to go with him, we ignored him. Finally, he flew into a rage, grabbed a toy panda and tore off its two arms. Then he felt ashamed and wanted to put them back. When he couldn't, he followed them around the room, keeping his head down and not wanting to see anyone. When Pambanisha came back to play music, he decided to stay in the tool room and punish himself.

Kanchi vacillates between willful instinctive impulse and sensitive self-esteem-one is aggressive and bullying, the other is reflection, as if he had been wronged. Sometimes, this change is so thorough and fast that people don't know what happened at all. Kanchi is purely emotional, and all feelings are directly from the heart. The expression of these feelings-including jealousy-is strong every time and is not adulterated at all. (Georgia State University: Hugh Savage-Rambo)

Mother Black Whale: Give the child some freedom.

Newborn killer whales are precocious. They can swim vigorously immediately after they are born. In fact, they live completely independently. They are very curious in infancy and adolescence. You become cautious when you are old. I have always found that adult killer whales are conservative, preferring to avoid unknown or new things rather than approach them rashly. But young killer whales will satisfy their curiosity as much as possible with the permission of their mother and brother.

One summer day, I observed a large group of killer whales in the johnstone Strait. A young mother and her baby, who may be only two years old, are located between me and the coast. I kept a distance of about 300 yards from them. Suddenly, I realized that I was watching my mother surface without her children. I looked around and found this calf following my boat, and its head was dangerously close to my outboard engine propeller.

What fascinates me is not the calf's curiosity about my outboard engine-it is obviously playing and exploring the world around it, which is typical behavior of mammalian babies. What impressed me was his mother. She kept a fixed distance from us when her children were safely with her. Now he insists on exploring my boat, and she swims closer and overcomes her caution.