Animals have emotions too

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Just stumbled here: I've seen quite a few cases of emotional outbursts when it came to various animals such as domesticated dogs and pigs. Strangely though, I haven't seen any with polar bears from my PBI trip.

IMO, most animals can/do have emotions that are on a similar level to ours: there are cases of trainers' animals dying of "broken-heart syndrome" and most animals tend to express emotions more freely due to lack of social penalty on emotion expression. Humans are emotional too, yet if I, for example, suddenly broke out in a loud wailing spell in the middle of a street, people would not respect/look at me the same.

This same rule applies to the relationship between males and females, of any species (including humans). Even without this social penalty, if a male breaks down emotionally in any way towards another male of his own species, the females will view him as a weaker male than the one who holds his emotions in. In humans, there is both a cultural and sex-related penalty on expressing emotion, and in animals, only the latter. Reply