Let bro touch some feathers man 😭
Heaven forbid an animal have emotions.
Yeah, why is it “just chance”? I don’t understand the idea that animals have no emotions, it’s weird.
We all know they do. It just makes compartmentalizing other… activities easier for some people.
Animal emotions is a hugely debated and studied topic, at least it was 10 years ago. It was a grave sin to anthropomorphize animals that have not been properly studied when I was in school. That comment is probably a tongue in cheek comment on that
‘They better not have emotions or holy shit I’m gonna have [more] nightmares about what we did to those dogs/rats/monkeys’
it’s more that what we perceive may be not what animals feel, especially as cute behaviors get them more attention, it’s self-reinforcing.
a cat may look like they’re having an existential crisis but may be feeling an emotion humans don’t have, like “ready to hunt but need to conserve limited energy while remaining very alert”
a dog may look happy but actually is upset and hungry so is doing the thing that gets them the treat
The weird part isn’t animals having emotions, it’s when they seem to be expressing them in ways that make sense to us. Everyone who’s had a dog or cat knows they express emotions very differently from us.
just for that I’m gonna push your coffee cup off the table (love you)
"Where feathers? :( "
- That pademelon probably
TIL about pademelons. they’re definitely more intriguing than their kin, watermelons and muskmelons.
Just wait till they join the Imperial Senate
its probably just chance :(
is it really that hard to believe an animal could be sad?
is it really that hard to believe an animal could be sad?
People that think emotions are exclusive to human beings either never had pets or never should have had pets.
Sademelon
Put it back please!
